Buster Keaton as a child with his parents . The first ten minutes of The General tell us everything we need to know about its embrace of the Confederacy and its white supremacy. He was 70 years old. By the time he left the act to star in motion pictures with Fatty Arbuckle at age 22, he had already been doing slapstick comedy for over 86% of his life. Critics rediscovered Keaton in 1949 and producers occasionally hired him for bigger "prestige" pictures. Sherlock Jr. will be Keaton's most enduring commentary on the art of cinema. Joe Keaton disapproved of films, and Keaton also had reservations about the medium. A chance meeting with comedian Rosco "Fatty" Arbuckle led him to break that contract. ", "The Narrative-Machine: Buster Keaton's Cinematic Comedy, Deleuze's Recursion Function and the Operational Aesthetic", "Keaton Chose $40 in Films to $750 on Stage", Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase: A Biography, "My Career at the Rear / Buster Keaton in World War I", "Muskegon: Buster Keaton documentary to focus on early life in Muskegon", "Reviews: The General/Steamboat Bill Jr", "Velocipede used by Buster Keaton in the film Our Hospitality", "Moving Pictures: Buster Keaton's 'General' Pulls In To PFA. It's true that Keaton was born in Piqua on October 4, 1895but it wasn't his home. Keaton was born into a vaudeville family. Buster Keaton. He'd say, "How about this?" Keaton then moved to full-length features. Buster Keaton was one of three great silent film comedians (along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd). Throughout the story, a simple good-guys-versus-bad-guys schema is applied to the Civil War, with the Confederates being the good guys, and Johnnie's hometown of Marietta depicted as a sort of bland, folksy utopia. In 1914, he told the Detroit News: "The secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. He was also a great director. Born Joseph Keaton (the sixth in a line of Joseph Keatons) in Piqua, Kansas on October 1, 1895, Buster had the delightful fortune of being born in the right place at the right time. A scene from "Our Hospitality," the feature film at the 2013 Buster Keaton Convention in Muskegon. Critic Dana Stevens published a cultural history of Keaton's life and work, Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Keaton also appeared in a comedy routine about two inept stage musicians in Charlie Chaplin's Limelight (released in 1952), recalling the vaudeville of The Playhouse. After her step-grandmother Eleanor died in 1998, Cox became the family's Goodwill Ambassador on behalf of her Grandpa Buster. [22] Decades later, Keaton said that he was never hurt by his father and that the falls and physical comedy were a matter of proper technical execution. Image via United Artists. He appeared on shows such as Playhouse 90, Route 66, and The Twilight Zone. Actor: The General. [19] Talmadge decided not to have any more children, banishing Keaton to a separate bedroom; he dated actresses Dorothy Sebastian and Kathleen Key during this period. [69] When Keaton transposed his experience in vaudeville to film, in many works he parodied melodramas. American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer, Born on October 04, 1895 In 1920, Keaton made his first full-length feature, The Saphead, playing the straight man, Bertie "The Lamb" Van Alstyne. Keaton parodied the tired formula of the melodramatic transformation from bad guy to good guy, which Hart's characters went through, known as "the good badman". In 2022, two works on Keaton appeared within a month of each other. By the time he was 21, his father's alcoholism threatened the reputation of the family act,[22] so Keaton and his mother, Myra, left for New York, where Keaton's career quickly moved from vaudeville to film. 29. Many people today don't know that the great silent comedy star Buster Keaton (whose birthday is today) started out as part of a family act with his parents, Joe and Myra. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out. In 1964, he told an interviewer that in making "this particular pork pie", he "started with a good Stetson and cut it down", stiffening the brim with sugar water. Sometimes it's hard to keep up with the latest celebrity news, but don't worry we have you covered. Keaton made his first full-length feature film, "Our Hospitality," in 1923. Buster Keaton and Ernest . [70], One of his most biting parodies is The Frozen North (1922), a satirical take on William S. Hart's Western melodramas, like Hell's Hinges (1916) and The Narrow Trail (1917). [21] In Keaton's retelling, he was six months old when the incident occurred, and Harry Houdini gave him the nickname (though the family did not get to know Houdini until later). 33. "[14], Keaton was born into a vaudeville family in Piqua, Kansas,[15] the small town where his mother, Myra Keaton (ne Cutler), was when she went into labor. From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis--a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative, modern--and irresistible--today as they . During the railroad water-tank scene in Sherlock Jr., Keaton broke his neck when a torrent of water fell on him from a water tower, but he did not realize it until years afterwards. "[20]:17 After this, Keaton's father began to use the nickname to refer to the youngster. I just stood there, and everybody is hassling. By 1917, Joseph Keaton had developed severe problems with alcohol and the family's act was dissolved. That same year, he was put under contract by Educational Films and returned to making shorts. The images and pieces have presentations and attendees from a #Buster Keaton Convention that is held the first week of October . 3, Thames Television, 1987, Perez Gilberto 'The Material GhostOn Keaton and Chaplin' 1998. Record information. The guest of honor and his bride Myra Keaton ride Minnie . Buster had broken up his family's vaudeville act, "The Three Keatons", at the age of 21, when his father's drinking made their rough-and-tumble act too difficult and dangerous. [29] Keaton later said[where?] He was born in Piqua, Kansas on 1895-10-04. The actors would phonetically memorize the foreign-language scripts a few lines at a time and shoot immediately after. He then moved to feature-length films; several of them, such as Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), and The Cameraman (1928), remain highly regarded. Reaction was strong enough for a local Los Angeles station to offer Keaton his own show, also broadcast live, in 1950. Keaton had two shows of his own, including The Buster Keaton Comedy Show (1949) and The Buster Keaton Show from 1950 until 1951. Two of his best films were made in 1924. He was a student at Blackfox Military Academy and a graduate of Santa Monica High School. The oldest son of Joseph and Myra Keaton, who were stage comedians. A two-day pass to the festival will cost $40, or a one-day pass for $25. Keaton's wife Eleanor also was seen in the series (notably as Juliet to Keaton's Romeo in a little-theater vignette). By the time he was five, Buster was formally added to the family act and instantly made "The Three Keatons" a success. Though The General (1926) was successful in retrospect, at the time it was critically derided. [98] A 1987 documentary, Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, won two Emmy Awards.[99]. The audience roared. $49.99 Buster Keaton does some excellent comedy falls." With a new picture set to start, Keaton's salary was bumped to $75 a week, a measure of the added value he brought to . Husband of Eleanor Ruth Keaton In the physical comedy routines performed with his father, Keaton became an expert at pratfalls and developed an impassive face that delighted audiences. "[5] In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him as the 21st-greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema.[6]. Keaton returned to film by the 1950s. Keaton was such a natural in his first film, The Butcher Boy, he was hired on the spot. His first was a parody of the famous D.W. Griffith film Intolerance (1916), entitled The Three Ages. CAMERA MAN Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, . This will be the festival's return to Iola. Maltin, Leonard, The Great Movie Comedians, Bell Publishing, 1978, Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, Chap. "Introduction." Director William Asher recalled: I always loved Buster Keaton. He would bring me bits and routines. Other significant film appearances included Around the World in 80 Days (1956), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), and War Italian Style (1966). As usual, Keaton performed all of his own stunts. Csblnc Flashback Open.mov. Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. In 1950, he played himself in Sunset Boulevard. "She just hated the man to death," said her grandson Jim. Wrong username or password. In Seven Chances (1925), he faces a rockslide. It was followed a month later by James Curtis' biography Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life. Still, he continued to find new situations in which to put his long-suffering face. Then, the facade of a two-story building toppled forward on top of Keaton. Who are Buster Keaton grandchildren? 1. Keaton soon discovered that his brand of comedy, especially his deadpan facial expressions, worked very well on film. In Our Hospitality (1923), a film about a mountain feud, Keaton shot both a novel train scene and waterfall scene on location. By this time, Keaton had further developed his distinct signature style that consisted of lucidity and precision along with acrobatics of ballistic precision and kineticism. Keaton had designed and built a modest but comfortable, cottage-like home as a surprise wedding gift for his bride. 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"[34], It was an expensive misfire (the climactic scene of a locomotive plummeting through a burning bridge was the most expensive single shot in silent-film history),[35][36] and Keaton was never entrusted with total control over his films again. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929" when he "worked . Keaton spent $42,000 on sending a train into a burning bridge. His film career was briefly interrupted by military service during World War I. Resuming his daily job as an MGM gag writer, he provided material for Red Skelton[48] and gave help and advice to Lucille Ball. On May 29, 1940, Keaton married Eleanor Norris, who was 23 years his junior. He began performing with his parents as a three year old in the act 'The Three Keatons', first . In 2016, Tony Hale portrayed Keaton in an episode of Drunk History focusing on the silent comedian's supposed rivalry with Charlie Chaplin, who was played by musician Billie Joe Armstrong. Film critic David Thomson later described Keaton's style of comedy: "Buster plainly is a man inclined towards a belief in nothing but mathematics and absurdity like a number that has always been searching for the right equation. Man Humor. He also began using a moving camera, at a time when many of his peers continued to use stationary ones. It was clear that Mr. Keaton and Mrs. Keaton had different ideas and lifestyles. This knockabout style of comedy led to accusations of child abuse, and occasionally, arrest. Knopf: 832 pages, $40. . the Number One enemy by giving generously te the Heart Fuad. Noticing that this caused the audience to laugh less, he adopted his famous deadpan expression when performing. The program also promoted the release of the biographical film The Buster Keaton Story with Donald O'Connor. "[12] In 2018, Peter Bogdanovich released The Great Buster: A Celebration, a tribute to Keaton featuring Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Werner Herzog and Quentin Tarantino, among others. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. When a grant that funded the program ended in 2017, the festival moved to Kansas City for a year. Later, Keaton changed his middle name to "Francis". Plus two cats, a dog, and a St. Bernard. [7] The General is viewed as his masterpiece: Orson Welles considered it "the greatest comedy ever madeand perhaps the greatest film ever made". They are the work of a man who, after decades of obscurity, found a way to perpetuate his comic images by embracing a new medium." Keaton managed to get his drinking under control by 1934, after a short time in Europe where he appeared in several films including Le roi des Champs-Elyses (1934). Educational primarily distributed short subjects; it is best known for its series of comedies starring Buster Keaton (1934-37) and the earliest screen appearances . Keaton's contract with MGM was ended in 1933. [16][17][18] According to a frequently repeated story, which may be apocryphal,[19] Keaton acquired the nickname Buster at the age of 18 months. After Keaton's successful work with Arbuckle, Schenck gave him his own production unit, Buster Keaton Productions. While his films were technically and creatively interesting, they were either critical or box office failures. [8][9][10][11] Welles said Keaton "was beyond all praisea very great artist, and one of the most beautiful men I ever saw on the screen. . Sgt. Service.[73]. For most grandfathers, this means doing puzzles on the living room floor or pushing their grandchild on a swing. Well into his fifties, Keaton successfully recreated his old routines, including one stunt in which he propped one foot onto a table, then swung the second foot up next to it and held the awkward position in midair for a moment before crashing to the stage floor. After this failure, Schenck sold his contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where his son, Nicholas, just happened to be in charge. The following year, United Artists hired Keaton; he made ten shorts in the next two years. In 1939, Columbia Pictures hired Keaton to star in 10 two-reel comedies; the series ran for two years, and comprise his last series as a starring comedian. "[44] Keaton made the film anyway, and was amazed that it became his biggest box office success. This equilibrium came into play with The Playhouse (1921), which he also wrote and directed with Cline. Keaton said that he canceled the filmed series himself, because he was unable to create enough fresh material to produce a new show each week. Keaton invented comedy bits where Johnson keeps trying to apologize to a seething Garland, but winds up messing up her hairdo and tearing her dress. On June 16, 2018, the International Buster Keaton Society laid a four-foot plaque in honor of both Keaton and Charles Chaplin on the corner of the shared block (1021 Lillian Ave) where each had made many of their silent comedies in Hollywood. [96] Keaton has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 6619 Hollywood Boulevard (for motion pictures); and 6225 Hollywood Boulevard (for television). Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. In 1965, Keaton starred in the short film The Railrodder for the National Film Board of Canada. [92] The marriage lasted until his death. Keaton died of lung cancer on February 1, 1966, aged 70, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. His parents, Joe and Myra, were both veteran vaudevillian actors, and Keaton himself first began performing at the age of 3 when . Rapf, Joanna E. and Green, Gary L. (1995), This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 07:22. In 1926, audiences were amazed by the daredevil antics of comedian Buster Keaton in the movie "The General . [53] Keaton also found steady work as an actor in TV commercials for Colgate, Alka-Seltzer, U.S. Steel, 7-Up, RCA Victor, Phillips 66, Milky Way, Ford Motors, Minute Rub, and Budweiser, among others. "[41] MGM wanted only Keaton the star, Keaton the creator was considered a waste of time and money because "in the time it took him to develop a project, he could have appeared in two or three pictures set up by the studio's production staff. "[76] Gilberto Perez commented on "Keaton's genius as an actor to keep a face so nearly deadpan and yet render it, by subtle inflections, so vividly expressive of inner life. Working with independent producer Joseph M. Schenck and filmmaker Edward F. Cline, Keaton made a series of successful two-reel comedies in the early 1920s, including One Week (1920), The Playhouse (1921), Cops (1922), and The Electric House (1922). Neibaur, James L. and Terri Niemi (2013). He was handed a script titled Sidewalks of New York (1932), in which he played a millionaire becoming involved with a slum-neighborhood girl and a gang of rowdy kids. [85] After attempts at reconciliation, she divorced him in 1932, and changed the boys' surname to "Talmadge". In 1926, comedian, writer, and director Buster Keaton made a film titled The General, which featured a stunt involving an actual train falling from a burning bridge into a river. . He appeared in the early television series Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town. Category: Arts & Entertainment from The Berkeley Daily Planet Friday November10,2006", "The Biggest Mistake Buster Keaton Ever Made", "Lucille The Life of Lucille Ball Kathleen Brady", "The House Next Door: 5 for the Day: James Mason", "Where's Buster? ), Keaton was so demoralized during the production of 1933's What! An unnamed author of Keaton's obituary in Variety, wrote, "The secret to his lasting success as a master comedian was his universally recognized character - the unhappy, doleful fall guy to whom 'everything' happened. The program always includes talks by Keaton expertsincluding family memberssocial events and film screenings. However, Thalberg did allow Keaton to stage the gags, including long stretches of pantomime, and agreed to send a crew to Keaton's own mansion for exterior shots. They divorced in 1936[89] at great financial cost to Keaton. Aerial stuntmen and daredevils from around 1920s - 1940s. No Beer? Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Buster Keaton With Family Rare Candid 8x10 Photo at the best online prices at eBay! [55], On April 3, 1957, Keaton was surprised by Ralph Edwards for the weekly NBC program This Is Your Life. I Image: Wikimedia Commons. (The restored version of that film, released in 2013, contains a scene where Jimmy and Culpeper talk on the telephone. Six of his films have been included in the National Film Registry, making him one of the most honored filmmakers on that list: One Week (1920), Cops (1922), Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926), Steamboat Bill, Jr., and The Cameraman (both 1928)[97], A 1957 film biography, The Buster Keaton Story, starring Donald O'Connor as Keaton was released. On February 1, 1966, Keaton died of lung cancer in Woodland Hills, California. [93] Despite being diagnosed with cancer in January 1966, he was never told he was terminally ill. Keaton thought that he was recovering from a severe case of bronchitis. One of the best of this era was Grand Slam Opera. He had a cameo as Jimmy, appearing near the end of the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). [101], In his essay Film-arte, film-antiartstico, artist Salvador Dal declared the works of Keaton to be prime examples of "anti-artistic" filmmaking, calling them "pure poetry". Whenever a TV show wanted to simulate silent-movie comedy, Keaton answered the call and guested in such successful series as The Ken Murray Show, You Asked for It, and The Garry Moore Show, and The Ed Sullivan Show. Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd advised him against making the move, cautioning that he would lose his independence. He continued to appear on television until his death. Childhood & Early Life. It marked the first time that a character walks off a movie screen and into "real life." 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