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Polly Rose BFE
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Film editor ✂️ 🎞️ PhD research: Buster Keaton’s film editing & creative process
📽️🍿Presenter and/or programmer of film screenings📍Bristol, UK

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Drop some eyes 👀
September 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Buster Keaton, master of comic timing, was ready for his #siegfriedandjoy magic moment 98 years early…

#BusterKeaton
#ItsAllComingBackToMeNow

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A screenshot of an Instagram reel showing a black and white frame of Buster Keaton in ‘Steamboat Bill Jr’ (1928, filmed 1927). Buster is standing on a small table in a deserted theatre about to pull a rope that will make him disappear. The Instagram text shows that the music playing is ‘All Coming Back To Me Now’ by Céline Dion. The hashtags read #busterkeaton and #siegfriedandjoy
April 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Delighted to realise from today’s #CaryComesHome screenings that the acrobatic sofa from HOLIDAY (1938) is also the divorce scene sofa from THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937) (both Columbia pictures).
Truly an iconic piece of furniture.
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn overturn a sofa in an acrobatic manner. Cary Grant faces off with Irene Dunne’s possible lover/singing teacher while she sits on the sofa with dog star Asta
December 1, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Neither one can sit straight in a chair, that’s why you know they’re a perfect match in HOLIDAY (1938).

Spend your Bristolian Sunday morning in the joyous company of #CaryGrant & #KatharineHepburn at #CaryComesHome Festival (intro by me)
Dec 1, Megascreen

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Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant perch on the back and arm of a sofa, respectively Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn, wearing evening dress, perform an acrobatic trick on a sofa.
November 30, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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🛹 Katharine Hepburn skateboards across your timeline 🛹 ✨

I’ll be talking about her earlier stunts with Cary Grant when I introduce their film HOLIDAY (1938) in the Cary Comes Home festival in Bristol this Sunday

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A colour photo of an older Katharine Hepburn in a white trouser suit skateboarding on a studio lot. A monochrome photo of Katharine Hepburn in white trousers and a sweater skateboarding (possibly on another occasion).
November 25, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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New blue plaque unveiled this week at #CaryGrant ‘s childhood home in Bristol! Just in time for the Cary Comes Home festival next weekend ❤️

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Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism Minister Sir Chris Bryant MP and Dr Charlotte Crofts, Director of the Cary Comes Home Film Festival, look out of a window above the blue plaque which reads “CARY GRANT / (Archie Leach) /1904–1986 / Actor and Film Star / lived here / as a child”. Red curtains are visible on either side of the plaque.
November 24, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Calling all members of the 5th Avenue Anti-Stuffed Shirt & Flying Trapeze Club! I’m introducing the wonderful HOLIDAY (1938) in Bristol’s Cary Comes Home Festival Sun 1st Dec at 10am - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ cast & script plus #CaryGrant & #KatharineHepburn do acrobatics…
🎟️🍿:
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An original poster image for HOLIDAY (1938) with the faces of Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn & Doris Nolan inside a yellow oval on a blue background. Cary and Katharine look at each other smiling while Doris looks on with a serious expression. A poster image for CARY COMES HOME FESTIVAL 29 Nov-1 Dec, showing a red carpet and a monochrome photo of Katharine Hepburn standing on Cary Grant’s shoulders, both in evening dress.
November 24, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Heads up! Bristol’s Cary Comes Home Festival begins this Friday - 3 days of screenings, panels and spectacular events celebrating our very own film star Archie Leach aka Cary Grant (now with blue plaque!)
⭐️📽️🎞️🍿

Full line up of films, speakers and venues here: www.carycomeshome.co.uk/events/2024-...
A poster image for the CARY COMES HOME FESTIVAL 29 NOV-1 DEC featuring a red carpet with a black and white image of Katharine Hepburn standing on Cary Grant’s shoulders, both in evening dress.
November 24, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Just discovered a range of wonderfully specific Buster Keaton-themed greeting cards by Caroloife on Etsy:

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A greeting card reading ‘BUST-ER MOVE… …It’s Your Birthday!’ with three drawings of Buster dancing from ‘The Cook’ (1918) A greetings card with a drawing of Buster’s face close to a woman’s face, with text reading ‘INSERT FACE HERE’ over the woman’s face (image taken from Buster’s scene as a waiter in The Cook (1918))
February 13, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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I loved UP IN MABEL’S ROOM (1926) when it was part of the online Pordenone festival - very excited that Lucy Porter will be introducing it for Slapstick Festival in Bristol this Thursday, with live music from Daan van den Hurk. Starring Marie Prevost! ⭐️📽️🎞️🎶🍿😂

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February 12, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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I’ve lined up 2 excellent sound shorts & a TV play all starring the incomparable Buster Keaton for KEATON SPEAKS! at Bristol’s Watershed for SlapstickFest this Thursday. Hear Buster’s voice, see him dance like Fred Astaire AND play a serious role - the man had range!
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Buster Keaton plays a ukulele into a strange audio feedback contraption circa 1929.
February 12, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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Hello Bluesky! Kicking off my timeline with Buster’s admirable yet somewhat ambiguous work ethic…
Headline reads “Buster Keaton Busy with Work”
January 9, 2024 at 10:28 PM