Joseph Frank Keaton VI
The Great Stone Face
Malec
When at six months he tumbled down a flight of stairs unharmed he was given the name "Buster" by Harry Houdini who, along with W.C. Fields, Bill Robinson (I) ("Bojangles"), Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson ...
Joseph Francis Keaton Jr. was born on October 4th 1895 in Piqua, Kansas to Joe and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were stage comedians and they were very successful especially with the renowned magician Ha...
Ed Stephan <[email protected]>
Daniel Dopierala [email protected]
Eleanor Keaton (28 July 1940 - 1 February 1966) (his death)
'Mae Scriven' (8 January 1933 - 1936) (divorced)
Natalie Talmadge (31 May 1921 - 25 July 1932) (divorced); 2 children
Porkpie hat, slapshoes, deadpan expression
His films contain elaborate gadgets of his own devising.
Used the camera to help comedy, e.g to create effect of rocking boat inbeginning of The Boat (1921).
"My Wonderful World of Slapstick" (1960 autobiography)
TV commercials for Pure Oil Company gasoline (1960s)
TV Commercials for Simon Pure beer, 1960s
TV commercial for Alka-Seltzer (1958)
TV commercial for Northwest Orient Airlines (1958)
TV Commercials for Simon Pure beer (1958)
Joanna E. Rapf and Gary L. Green. _Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography._ Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995.ISBN 0313251487
Rudi Blesh. _Keaton._ Riverside, New Jersey, USA: The MacMillan Company, 1966.
Marion Meade. _Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase._ New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
Jan Kline. _The Complete Films of Buster Keaton._ Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1994.
R. Benayoun. _The Look of Buster Keaton._ 1983.
Tom Dardis. _Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down._ New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1979.
No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in mylife! And I go 'round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-weareverything but a corset . . . can't stub my toe in this pictu...
[when told to cheer up at an MGM film premiere, the reporter asked, "Areyou happy to be here?"] Of course, I got off location for this!
What used to get my goat at MGM were comedians likeThe Marx Brothers or Abbott and Costello who never worried aboutthe script or the next scene. My God, we ate, slept and dreamed ourpictures.
Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New Yorkcan be like that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, andsomething happens, and then you're out - nobody knows you on ...
Lucy (2003) (TV)
Hollywood Steps Out (1941)
The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
Jail Bait (1937): $2,500.00
Love Nest on Wheels (1937): $2,500.00
Ditto (1937): $2,500.00
The Chemist (1936): $2,500.00
Blue Blazes (1936): $2,500.00
Mixed Magic (1936): $2,500.00
Three on a Limb (1936): $2,500.00
Grand Slam Opera (1936): $2,500.00
The Timid Young Man (1935): $2,500.00
Tars and Stripes (1935): $2,500.00
Palooka from Paducah (1935): $2,500.00
The E-Flat Man (1935): $2,500.00
Hayseed Romance (1935): $2,500.00
One Run Elmer (1935): $2,500.00
Sunset Blvd. (1950): $1,000.00
"Radio Times" (UK), 11 March 2006, Vol. 328, Iss. 4275, by: Barry Norman, "Film Star of the Week: Buster Keaton"
"The Guardian" (UK), 17 February 2006, by: Armando Iannucci, "My poster boy"
"Remember" (USA), April 1996, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, pg. 12 - 17, by: Terry Maser, "Buster Keaton - The Legend of the Great Stone Face"
"Remember" (USA), April 1996, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, pg. 17, by: Patricia Eliot Tobias, "Keaton's Fall - And Rise"
"Garbo" (Spain), 20 September 1972, Vol. XX, Iss. 1012, pg. 53-55, by: Giuseppe Grieco, "Nunca me han visto sonreir"
"Cinema" (Italy), 30 June 1950, Iss. 41
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987) (TV)
The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
Buster Keaton and Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle (2002) (TV)
The Art of Buster Keaton (1995) (V)
The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1975)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004) (TV)
Sunset Blvd. (1950) Film-Noir
A Night at the Opera (1935) Musical
Cineastas contra magnates (2005) Biography
Film (1965) Drama
One Week (1920) Comedy
Seven Chances (1925) Family
Sherlock Jr. (1924) Mystery
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) Family
The Cameraman (1928) Family
"Pritzker Military Library Presents" (2006) {Stealing the General (#4.25)}
Buster Keaton
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…In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen (later known as Jeff York) as Li'l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle. A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway at the St. ...