His mother, sister and brother (and his family) all lived with him. 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. 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! Keaton, however, did not own any part of the company. Unfortunately, his one attempt at a strong dramatic role, the lead in the weak biopic The Buster Keaton Story (1957) proved to be . [13] The General has placed highly on the Sight & Sound poll, and Our Hospitality, Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator also received multiple votes. Joseph Talmadge Keaton was the first son born to comic actor Buster Keaton and his wife, actress Natalie Talmadge; he was also a nephew of silent screen actresses Norma and Constance Talmadge. In 1920, Keaton made his first full-length feature, The Saphead, playing the straight man, Bertie "The Lamb" Van Alstyne. The medium revitalized his career. He escaped a straitjacket with tricks learned from Harry Houdini. Man Humor. 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. [67] He played the central role in Samuel Beckett's Film (1965), directed by Alan Schneider. 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. 29. Late in his career, Keaton made cameos in Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, Chaplin's Limelight, Samuel Beckett's Film and the Twilight Zone episode "Once Upon a Time". 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. Keaton's wife Eleanor also was seen in the series (notably as Juliet to Keaton's Romeo in a little-theater vignette). 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. His final appearance on film was in The Scribe, a 1966 safety film produced in Toronto by the Construction Safety Associations of Ontario: he died shortly after completing it. ", "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. [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. But we had no luck with Keaton because he thought up his best gags himself and we couldn't steal him! He would return often. His film career was briefly interrupted by military service during World War I. 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. The program also promoted the release of the biographical film The Buster Keaton Story with Donald O'Connor. [71] Keaton directed the film, along with Edward F. Cline. "[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. Critics rediscovered Keaton in 1949 and producers occasionally hired him for bigger "prestige" pictures. Later, the family had two more children. He appeared in the early television series Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town. He was named Joseph to continue a tradition on his father's side (he was sixth in a line bearing the name Joseph Keaton)[1] and Frank for his maternal grandfather, who disapproved of his parents' union. 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. Adding to his mystique was a background on the vaudeville stage with all its tricks and sleight of hand. Actor: The General. [60], In 1961, Keaton appeared in promotional films for Maryvale, a housing development in the western part of Phoenix. In 1914, he told the Detroit News: "The secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. "Gee whiz," said George Pardey, an unknown Midwestern actor and a Keaton family friend, adding, "He's a regular buster!" The baby's father said, "I'm going to call him by it." Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. Get 'em for me.' login . In 2022, two works on Keaton appeared within a month of each other. Keaton's daring was unquestionable; his famous $42,000 train wreck in The General almost $650,000 in today's dollarsis the most expensive shot in silent film history. Buster Keaton's full name is Joseph Frank Keaton and his nickname is Buster Keaton. 616: Ruth Carbaugh 201; Elaine Weigle 513. Keaton is often described as having been ahead of his time; Anthony Lane wrote "He was just too good, in too many ways, too soon No action thriller of the last, blood-streaked decade has matched the kinetic violence at the end of Steamboat Bill, Jr., in which a storm pulls Keaton through one random catastrophe after another. A suitcase handle was sewn into Keaton's clothing to aid with the constant tossing. [26][27], Keaton spent the summers of 19081916 "at the 'Actor's Colony' in the Bluffton neighborhood of Muskegon, along with other famous vaudevillians. In one sequence, Keaton even danced with himself. [100] Hirschfeld said that modern film stars were more difficult to depict, that silent film comedians such as Laurel and Hardy and Keaton "looked like their caricatures". Garry Moore recalled, "I asked (Keaton) how he did all those falls, and he said, 'I'll show you.' He was forced to make several films as a straight man to Jimmy Durante, including Free and Easy (1930). Their son began appearing on stage with them as early as nine months of age. Vance, Jeffrey. The stunt required precision, because the prop house weighed two tons, and the window only offered a few inches of clearance around Keaton's body. 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 . At the end of the day, he asked to borrow one of the cameras to get a feel for how it worked. The Colony celebrate Joe Keaton's birthday with a parade through Bluffton. He appeared on screen simultaneously nine times. The following year, United Artists hired Keaton; he made ten shorts in the next two years. He and Natalie Talmadge divorced on bitter terms in 1932. Although forces opposed to child labor tried to keep him off the stage, Keaton soon became an integral part of the show. He supported them all. [47], Keaton's personal life had stabilized with his 1940 marriage to MGM dancer Eleanor Norris, and now he was taking life a little easier, abandoning Columbia for the less strenuous field of feature films. 'tendell of Pittsburgh Gas Com- ern District Grand Lodge of.^, 1, Col. 8) KOONEY Shucked By Tragedy HOLLYWOOD deadpan comedian. Buster Keaton's in laws: Buster Keaton's father in law was Ralph Norris Buster Keaton's mother in law is Lot Norris Buster Keaton's grandmother in law is Harriet Norris Buster Keaton's sister in law is Jane Norris Buster Keaton's father in law was Avert M Scriven Buster Keaton's mother in law was Lucy Scriven Buster Keaton's brother in law was . Keaton died of lung cancer on February 1, 1966, aged 70, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out. Between 1947 and 1954, the couple appeared regularly in the Cirque Medrano in Paris as a double act. The grandchildren delighted in deliberately mentioning Buster's name. The young Keaton goaded his father by disobeying him, and the elder Keaton responded by throwing him against the scenery, into the orchestra pit, or even into the audience. Buster plays a projectionist who dreams his way onto the screen and into a movie in which he resolves the conflicts of his own life. Melissa Talmadge Cox is the granddaughter of Buster Keaton and a long time resident of Cloverdale. 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. He amazed the cast and crew by doing many of his own stunts, although the Thames Television documentary reported that his increasingly ill health did force the use of a stunt double for some scenes. Keaton, Eleanor, and Vance, Jeffrey (2001). James Curtis. He appeared on shows such as Playhouse 90, Route 66, and The Twilight Zone. By James Curtis. The sequence furnished one of the most memorable images of his career. During his time in uniform, he suffered an ear infection that permanently impaired his hearing. She came to know his routines so well that she often participated in them in television revivals. The Day the Laughter Stopped. Yallop, David (1976). Known as "The Great Stone Face," Keaton got big laughs out of his relentlessly blank expression in silent film comedies like The Saphead (1920), Sherlock, Jr. (1924), and his famous The General (1927). He is best known for his silent film work, in which his trademark was physical comedy accompanied by a stoic, deadpan expression that earned him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". The oldest son of Joseph and Myra Keaton, who were stage comedians. In Go West (1925), he is stared down by a herd of cattle. [45] In another telling, Keaton was fired after MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer "raided" Keaton's dressing room during a wild party with Keaton's "cronies and their girlfriends" and Keaton "angrily ordered Mayer to get out." Buster Keaton and Marceline Day in The Cameraman, 1928. [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. . "[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. "[40], When the studio began making talking films, Keaton was enthused about the new technology and wanted to make his next film, Spite Marriage, with sound. One of the best of this era was Grand Slam Opera. (Arbuckle was eventually acquitted, with an apology from the jury for the ordeal he underwent.[30]). By Dana Stevens. Allegedly, Keaton suffered a nasty fall, but displayed a nonchalant reaction to it. Afterward, I only gradually realized what kind of family I was inheriting. This equilibrium came into play with The Playhouse (1921), which he also wrote and directed with Cline. With The Frozen North and The Playhouse. that MGM fired him after the filming was completed, despite the film being a commercial hit. In In the Good Old Summertime, Keaton personally directed the stars Judy Garland and Van Johnson in their first scene together, where they bump into each other on the street. [23], The act ran up against laws banning child performers in vaudeville. [104], Keaton's Sherlock Jr., in which he walks into the movie he is projecting, was an influence Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, in which a character walks out of a movie and into real life. His talent led the family to New York City and, in 1909, to an appearance in London. He stars as a great fortune's sole heir that falls in love with the daughter of his family's greatest rival, played by . He was drafted by the United States Army in 1918, and served for over a year with the 40th Infantry in France. The director was usually Jules White, whose emphasis on slapstick and farce made most of these films resemble White's famous Three Stooges shorts. Buster Keaton as a child with his parents . The act evolved as Keaton learned to take trick falls safely; he was rarely injured or bruised on stage. By 1917, Joseph Keaton had developed severe problems with alcohol and the family's act was dissolved. [29] Keaton later said[where?] Buster Keaton With Camera Rare Candid 8x10 Photo. I do all that but I do a lot more with my three-year-old grandson. [32], Aside from Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), Keaton's most enduring feature-length films include Our Hospitality (1923), The Navigator (1924), Sherlock Jr. (1924), Seven Chances (1925), The Cameraman (1928), and The General (1926). [4] In 1996, Entertainment Weekly recognized Keaton as the seventh-greatest film director, writing that "More than Chaplin, Keaton understood movies: He knew they consisted of a four-sided frame in which resided a malleable reality off which his persona could bounce. Two of Keaton's . Dedicated to bringing greater public attention to Keaton's life and work, the membership includes many individuals from the television and film industry: actors, producers, authors, artists, graphic novelists, musicians, and designers, as well as those who simply admire the magic of Buster Keaton. Born June 2, 1922, first born son of Natalie Talmadge and comedian Buster Keaton, nephew of silent screen actresses Norma and Constance Talmadge, Jim attended Blackfox Military . Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Buster Keaton With Dog Rare Candid 8x10 Photo at the best online prices at eBay! He first appeared on stage in 1899 in Wilmington, Delaware. Employing picturesque locations, the film's storyline reenacted an actual wartime incident. "Introduction." Keaton was convinced to star in a short film with Arbuckle, called The Butcher Boy (1917). Now that many women are having their first child in their 30s, many men in their 70s are spending time with toddlers or pre-school kids. Keaton had designed and built a modest but comfortable, cottage-like home as a surprise wedding gift for his bride. His mother nicknamed him Jimmy. He also began using a moving camera, at a time when many of his peers continued to use stationary ones. Keaton observed that during his silent period, such a hat cost him around two dollars (~$2733 in 2022 dollars); at the time of his interview, he said, they cost almost $13 (~$116 in 2022 dollars). Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Kansas, and was the firstborn of Joseph Keaton and Myra Cutler. Era By BOB THOMAS H list grows thin. [37], Keaton's last three features had been produced and released independently, under Keaton's control, and fell short of financial expectations at the box office. Buster that the judge thought my mother was the bride! in Woodland Hills, California, USA, This form allows you to report an error or to submit additional information about this family tree: Buster KEATON (1895), Copyright Wikipdia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0. By the age of 5, Buster is part of his family's vaudeville act, and only 6 months later the Atlanta Constitution names him as "the star of the Keaton aggregation of three". BUSTER KEATON is an adoptable Dog - Schnauzer searching for a forever family near Atlanta, GA. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area. Arbuckle also wrote and directed this film. By the time he was five, Buster was formally added to the family act and instantly made "The Three Keatons" a success. In Seven Chances (1925), he faces a rockslide. This knockabout style of comedy led to accusations of child abuse, and occasionally, arrest. Comment. He had a cameo as Jimmy, appearing near the end of the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). The spectacular stunt cost $42,000 to makea huge amount at the time. The act was mainly a comedy sketch. While the movie had an impressive tornado sequence and an interesting topic (a Mississippi riverboat race) which pleased critics, Steamboat Bill Jr. was not a commercial success. [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. Keaton had little to say about the details of the MGM contract; he would no longer have any financial responsibility for his films, and even his salary had been pre-negotiated, without his own input. Most of these 16 films are simple visual comedies, with many of the gags supplied by Keaton himself, often recycling ideas from his family vaudeville act and his earlier films. Much of the film was shot on location on the Sacramento River, which doubled for the Mississippi River setting of Twain's book. It marked the first time that a character walks off a movie screen and into "real life." [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. In 1965 he appeared on the CBS television special A Salute to Stan Laurel, a tribute to the comedian and friend of Keaton who had died earlier that year. Keatan balanced his work in front and behind the camera very well. In addition to appearing in numerous commercials (including one for Alka-Seltzer), Keaton made many guest appearances in both comedies and dramas. "She just hated the man to death," said her grandson Jim. The series benefited from a company of veteran actors, including Marcia Mae Jones as the ingenue, Iris Adrian, Dick Wessel, Fuzzy Knight, Dub Taylor, Philip Van Zandt, and his silent-era contemporaries Harold Goodwin, Hank Mann, and stuntman Harvey Parry. "[31] The more adventurous ideas called for dangerous stunts, performed by Keaton at great physical risk. His third wife was a dancer named Eleanor Ruth Norris. The most famous was legendary silent film star, Buster Keaton. In 1994, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld penned a series of silent film stars for the United States Post Office, including Rudolph Valentino and Keaton. It was not released until 1921. The next project confirmed Keaton's fears about studio interference. In the first Keaton pictures with sound, he and his fellow actors would shoot each scene three times: once in English, once in Spanish, and once in either French or German. A scene from Steamboat Bill, Jr. required Keaton to stand still on a particular spot. He'd say, "How about this?" ", In 1954, Keaton and Eleanor met film programmer Raymond Rohauer, with whom they developed a business partnership to re-release his films. 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. Rerun it on video, and you can see Buster riding the collapse like a surfer, hanging onto the steering wheel, coming beautifully to rest as the wave of wreckage breaks. Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family slapstick act reputed . In the last analysis, no one came near him. [48] The screenplay, by Sidney Sheldon, who also directed the film, was loosely based on Keaton's life but contained many factual errors and merged his three wives into one character. [109] In honor of the event, the City of Los Angeles declared the date "Buster Keaton Day."[110]. His great period began in 1923 when he appeared in The Three Ages and a year later he made a full length comedy . Orson Welles interview, from the Kino November 10, 2009 Blu-Ray edition of The General. Most of these parodies targeted acts with which Keaton had shared the bill. He was named "Joseph" to continue a tradition on his father's sidehe was sixth in a line bearing the name Joseph Keatonand "Frank" for his maternal grandfather, who disapproved of the parents' union. 3, Thames Television, 1987, Perez Gilberto 'The Material GhostOn Keaton and Chaplin' 1998. This combination of talents proved felicitous when Keaton inevitably aged out of the family act and started making movies. Son of Joseph Frank Hallie Keaton and Myra Edith Keaton Battling Butler (1926), a boxing movie, was a commercial success. "[77] Critic Anthony Lane also noted Keaton's body language: The traditional Buster stance requires that he remain upstanding, full of backbone, looking ahead [in The General] he clambers onto the roof of his locomotive and leans gently forward to scan the terrain, with the breeze in his hair and adventure zipping toward him around the next bend. Plus two cats, a dog, and a St. Bernard. In the end, I gave up like a fool and said 'what the hell?' It soon. The film has a largely negative reputation, with renowned film historian Kevin Brownlow calling it the worst film ever made.[50]. Prikryl, Jana (July 9, 2011), "The Genius of Buster". Buster Keaton got his name in true slapstick fashion. Harry N. Abrams, 2001, pg. ", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton, http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/buster-keaton.html, http://www.biography.com/articles/Buster-Keaton-9361442, http://www.answers.com/topic/buster-keaton. Keaton was born into a vaudeville family. He made his last starring feature, El Moderno Barba Azul (1946), in Mexico; the film was a low-budget production, and it may not have been seen in the United States until its release on VHS in the 1980s, under the title Boom in the Moon. 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. Neibaur, James L. and Terri Niemi (2013). Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family slapstick act reputed to be the most violent in vaudeville. Several factors, other than the loss of creative control, contributed to Keaton's downward spiral in the late 1920s and early 1930s. [68], Keaton started experimenting with parody during his vaudeville years, where most frequently his performances involved impressions and burlesques of other performers' acts. The first ten minutes of The General tell us everything we need to know about its embrace of the Confederacy and its white supremacy. Buster Keaton Remembered. [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". Though this was a partnership, Cline later acknowledged that Keaton did much of the work. In The Playhouse (1921), he parodied his contemporary Thomas H. Ince, Hart's producer, who indulged in over-crediting himself in his film productions. Over time, things grew unpleasant between Buster and his dad . You had to requisition a toothpick in triplicate. Keaton's widow, Eleanor, attended for a couple of years. Buster Keaton Remembered. Keaton's art has inspired full academic study. Irving was usually on my side, but this time he said, 'Larry likes it. "The Three Keatons," a poor vaudeville family consisting of Joe, his wife Myra and their seven-year-old son Buster, arrive in Fargo, North Dakota on a snowy winter's day in 1904, with dreams of becoming stars. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Though it would come to be regarded as Keaton's greatest achievement, the film received mixed reviews at the time. Sgt. Fairbanks recommended Keaton to take the role[citation needed] for the remake five years later, since the film was to have a comic slant. [49], Keaton accepted various character roles in both "A" and "B" features. But it's even more pleasurable to get back to the presentwhere brooding, miserable, non-smiling Humphrey Bogart really shines. As a baby, he tumbled all the way down a flight of stairs to the landing below. He would later cite this as the worst business decision of his life in his autobiography. Later, Keaton changed his middle name to "Francis". Buster Keaton and Ernest . "[28], In February 1917, he met Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle at the Talmadge Studios in New York City, where Arbuckle was under contract to Joseph M. Schenck. [20]:18, At the age of three, Keaton began performing with his parents in The Three Keatons. Genealogy for Joseph Frank Keaton, VI (1895 - 1966) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Poker-Faced Comedian of Films", "Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (American Masters)", Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect, "Mel Brooks on Buster Keaton--The Lybarger Links Interview", "The Strange Behavior of Johnny Knoxville", "Keaton Weekend in L.A. Celebrates the Great Silent Comedian", "City of Los Angeles to declare June 16, 2018 "Buster Keaton Day", Barnett, Ryan and Matthew Tavares (Illustrator), Buster Keaton and the Muskegon Connection, Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts (19201923) by James L. 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His large, deep eyes are the most eloquent feature; with merely a stare, he can convey a wide range of emotions, from longing to mistrust, from puzzlement to sorrow. Look at his faceas beautiful but as inhuman as a butterflyand you see that utter failure to identify sentiment. $49.99 He worked with comedian Ernie Kovacs on a television pilot tentatively titled "Medicine Man," shooting scenes for it on January 12, 1962the day before Kovacs died in a car crash. Joseph Frank Keaton was born October 4, 1895 to Joe, a comedic acrobat whose main aid was a table, and Myra, one of the . In this film, he broke his neck, but did not discover it until ten years later. They were married in Mexico on January 1, 1932, before his divorce was final; then again legally in 1933. "stuntmen don't get you laughs," Keaton had said.[43]. That's the way it always had been, until his mother . Record information. Record information. In 1965, Keaton appeared in a short film written and shot by French existentialist playwright Samuel Beckett entitled simply Film. 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. MGM also forced Keaton to use a stunt double during some of the more dangerous scenes, something he had never done in his heyday, as MGM wanted badly to protect its investment. Then in his twenties, he had outgrown his family vaudeville act, whose violent acrobatics had relied on a size . Last year, she went to Germany for a Buster Keaton Film Festival. After the child fell down a long flight of stairs without injury, an actor friend named George Pardey remarked, "Gee whiz, he's a regular buster! The son of . Everybody else in the studio likes the story. I just stood there, and everybody is hassling. Knopf: 832 pages, $40. 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