3-LINE SYNOPSIS.
What happens when a wise-cracking vent figure teams up with a shy boy with a love of puppets team up? You get FORGOTTEN STARS, a mockumentary about ventriloquist Jerry Boyd and his partner, Delbert Schwartz. This whimsical tale covers the ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies of one of America's best, and least remembered, ventriloquist teams.
125-WORD SYNOPSIS.
FORGOTTEN STARS is a mockumentary about Jerry Boyd and Delbert Schwartz. This whimsical comedy spans from Vaudeville to the 1960s using film, radio broadcasts, photographs and interviews.
Delbert, a wise-cracking vent, and Jerry, a shy boy with a love of puppets, team up in WWII but struggle in small-time radio until Delbert goes off script and off color. Their careers take off until a co-star turns red, then dead and Jerry and Delbert are blacklisted.
Boyd and Schwartz make a come-back with the beat generation until Jerry meets a beautiful woman with an eye for art films, French directors and Jerry’s money. Jerry and Delbert are finally through.
They struggle apart and discover that together, they are worth more than the sum of their parts.
250-WORD SYNOPSIS.
FORGOTTEN STARS is a mockumentary about ventriloquist Jerry Boyd and his partner, Delbert Schwartz. This whimsical comedy roams from Vaudeville to the counter-culture of the 1960s using film, radio broadcasts, photographs and interviews.
Delbert, a wise-cracking vent figure, and Jerry, a shy boy with a love of puppets, team up in WWII but struggle in small-time radio until Delbert goes off script and off color. Their careers take off until a co-star of their popular kid’s show turns red, then dead and Jerry and Delbert are blacklisted.
The show isn’t over as Boyd and Schwartz make a come-back with the beat generation. The good times roll until Jerry meets a beautiful woman with an eye for art films, French directors and Jerry’s money. Jerry and Delbert are finally through, this time for good.
They struggle apart and discover that together, they are worth more than the sum of their parts.