Buster Keaton, 356552 Balsam St, Arvada, CO 80004

The Great Stone Face
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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 shared headlines with The Three Keatons: Buster, his father Joe Keaton and mother Myra Keaton. Their...

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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)

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.

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 picture noranything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without evergetting hit with anything!
[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.

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)

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)}