3. Happy Mask, Unhappy Boy By Margaret Keane
Margaret Keane’s melancholy portraits of big-eyed children became phenomenally successful in the 1950’s and 1960’s – fans and collectors included Natalie Wood, Andy Warhol, Joan Crawford, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and even the United Nations itself. But Margaret received no recognition at the time, as her scheming husband Walter Keane, had perpetrated one of the greatest art frauds of all time, by claiming the wide-eyed children as his own. The highly successful Tim Burton film tells this incredible story, which is not surprising considering Burton’s love of Kitschy bug-eyed monsters.