The director was usually Jules White, whose emphasis on slapstick and farce made most of these films resemble White's famous Three Stooges shorts. Life with Buster Keaton (1951) was an attempt to recreate the first series on film, allowing the program to be broadcast nationwide. After returning to the U.S. in 1919, Keaton appeared in several more Arbuckle short films such as A Country Hero (1919). In The Playhouse (1921), he parodied his contemporary Thomas H. Ince, Hart's producer, who indulged in over-crediting himself in his film productions. [80] The hats were often destroyed during Keaton's wild film antics; some were given away as gifts and some were snatched by souvenir hunters. 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. 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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. 29. In 1949, Keaton appeared on television for the first time. Keaton's contract with MGM was ended in 1933. In 1928 film executive Nicholas Schenck arranged a deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for Keaton's services. When the Educational series lapsed in 1937, Keaton returned to MGM as a gag writer, supplying material for the final three Marx Brothers MGM films: At the Circus (1939), Go West (1940), and The Big Store (1941); these were not as artistically successful as the Marxes' previous MGM features. No Beer? Spouse: Thelma Ferne WOOD (1905-xxxx) 4454 People 0 Records 0 Sources: Buster William Keaton Sr. found in 22 trees View all. 616: Ruth Carbaugh 201; Elaine Weigle 513. His marriage to actress Natalie Talmadge, with whom he had two sons, fell apart, and he became plagued with issues related to alcoholism and depression. Buster Keaton got his name in true slapstick fashion. 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. He also admitted to borrowing the idea of the changing room scene in The Cameraman for his own film Silent Movie. 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. 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. Last year, she went to Germany for a Buster Keaton Film Festival. He was soon offered a role in a Broadway show, The Passing Show of 1917, for the princely sum of $250 per week. This equilibrium came into play with The Playhouse (1921), which he also wrote and directed with Cline. By James Curtis. His wife divorced him, and he descended into alcoholism. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment. Please try again. BUSTER KEATON is an adoptable Dog - Schnauzer searching for a forever family near Atlanta, GA. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area. [51] Keaton had prints of the features Three Ages, Sherlock Jr., Steamboat Bill, Jr., and College (missing one reel), and the shorts "The Boat" and "My Wife's Relations", which Keaton and Rohauer then transferred to Cellulose acetate film from deteriorating nitrate film stock. He made a series of two-reel comedies, including One Week (1920), The Playhouse (1921), Cops (1922), and The Electric House (1922). . Keaton, Eleanor, and Vance, Jeffrey (2001). His film career was briefly interrupted by military service during World War I. In today's dollars that would be the equivalent of more than $600,000making it the most . Allegedly, Keaton suffered a nasty fall, but displayed a nonchalant reaction to it. American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer, Born on October 04, 1895 [25], Keaton served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France with the United States Army's 40th Infantry Division during World War I. "[31] The more adventurous ideas called for dangerous stunts, performed by Keaton at great physical risk. By Kelly Braun. Sarah Porter , Joseph Judson, Isabeau de DAMPIERRE , John de FIENNES, Brangre de CASTILLE , Alfonse Ix de CASTILLE. Garry Moore recalled, "I asked (Keaton) how he did all those falls, and he said, 'I'll show you.' He estimated that he and his wife Eleanor made thousands of hats during his career. Buster Keaton. Keaton found his footing with his next film, One Week (1920), which focused on the tribulations of a do-it-yourself house. Caryn James wrote in The New York Times, "Keaton's television appearances are warm and enduring. 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. Anyone who thinks that the movie-within-a-movie is a recent conceit, the province of The Purple Rose of Cairo and Last Action Hero, should check out Sherlock Jr., a film in which Keaton dreams himself into another film: he strolls up the aisle of the theatre, hops into the action, and fights to keep up with the breakneck changes of scene. login . Confined to a hospital during his final days, Keaton was restless and paced the room endlessly, desiring to return home. Buster Keaton and Marceline Day in The Cameraman, 1928. He was also a great director. Keaton had designed and built a modest but comfortable, cottage-like home as a surprise wedding gift for his bride. The giant studio was run along strict factory lines, with everything planned and budgeted in advance. Rami Malek and Buster Keaton Samir Hussein/WireImage/John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images. Also, soundstages were then at a premium, and MGM usually reserved them for dramatic productions. The first ten minutes of The General tell us everything we need to know about its embrace of the Confederacy and its white supremacy. The Educational two-reelers have far more pantomime than his earlier talkies, and Keaton is in good form throughout. 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". [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 was born in Piqua, Kansas, the small town where his mother, Myra Edith Cutler, happened to go into labor. Director William Asher recalled: I always loved Buster Keaton. He would bring me bits and routines. Buster Keaton's full name is Joseph Frank Keaton and his nickname is Buster Keaton. Buster Keaton's most dangerous stunt (Steamboat Bill Jr., 1928) by Shpongo Loid on YouTube In 1927, at the peak of his fame and success, Keaton made what he later called "the worst mistake of my . After her step-grandmother Eleanor died in 1998, Cox became the family's Goodwill Ambassador on behalf of her Grandpa Buster. Twenty-five years after the divorce, she would not permit his name to be spoken in her house. [84] Natalie's extravagance was another factor, spending up to a third of her husband's earnings. By 1917, Joseph Keaton had developed severe problems with alcohol and the family's act was dissolved. When a grant that funded the program ended in 2017, the festival moved to Kansas City for a year. 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. 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, Eleanor and Jeffrey Vance. The Society's nickname, the "Damfinos," draws its name from a boat in Keaton's 1921 comedy, The Boat. He also began using a moving camera, at a time when many of his peers continued to use stationary ones. [73] The film's opening intertitles give it its mock-serious tone, and are taken from "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" by Robert W. 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". 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). After this failure, Schenck sold his contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where his son, Nicholas, just happened to be in charge. Keaton played every role in the movie, which was set in a theater. His distributor, United Artists, insisted on a production manager who monitored expenses and interfered with certain story elements. The spectacular stunt cost $42,000 to makea huge amount at the time. [96] Keaton has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 6619 Hollywood Boulevard (for motion pictures); and 6225 Hollywood Boulevard (for television). The death this week of, children. 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 . [55], On April 3, 1957, Keaton was surprised by Ralph Edwards for the weekly NBC program This Is Your Life. The following year, United Artists hired Keaton; he made ten shorts in the next two years. Brother of Harry Stanley Keaton and Louise J. Keaton. Actor James Mason had bought the Keatons' house and found numerous cans of films, among which was Keaton's long-lost classic The Boat. Reaction was strong enough for a local Los Angeles station to offer Keaton his own show, also broadcast live, in 1950. None of them were very good. He appeared on shows such as Playhouse 90, Route 66, and The Twilight Zone. 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Keaton was one of silent film's most famous comedians; his popularity waned in the 1930s, but he made a nostalgic flurry of films before his 1966 death. In 1965, Keaton starred in the short film The Railrodder for the National Film Board of Canada. 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). It was followed a month later by James Curtis' biography Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life. Who was I to say I was right and everyone was wrong? in Piqua, Kansas, USA , United States, Died on February 01, 1966 I Image: Wikimedia Commons. Though The General (1926) was successful in retrospect, at the time it was critically derided. They had two sons: Joseph, called James[81] (June 2, 1922 February 14, 2007),[82] and Robert (February 3, 1924 July 19, 2009).[83]. [90] After undergoing aversion therapy, he stopped drinking for five years.[91]. "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. Buster Keaton and Phyllis Haver in The Balloonatic (1923) - publicity still. [71] He wears a small version of Hart's campaign hat from the SpanishAmerican War and a six-shooter on each thigh, and during the scene in which he shoots the neighbor and her husband, he reacts with thick glycerin tears, a trademark of Hart's. After Keaton's successful work with Arbuckle, Schenck gave him his own production unit, Buster Keaton Productions. The medium revitalized his career. Keaton's other 1924 film, The Navigator, was shot on an ocean liner and directed with Donald Crisp. Irving was usually on my side, but this time he said, 'Larry likes it. On February 14, 2007, James Talmadge (born Joseph Talmadge Keaton) passed away peacefully with his wife of 63 years, the love of his life, Barbara Talmadge, by his side. 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. He was drafted by the United States Army in 1918, and served for over a year with the 40th Infantry in France. 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 . (Read Lillian Gish's 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) Buster William Keaton Sr. from tree Keaton Family Tree. [24] Despite tangles with the law, Keaton was a rising star in the theater. 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". He was, in fact, the star and a skilled acrobat. Keaton kept trying to persuade his bosses to let him do things his way. With the exception of Seeing Stars, a minor publicity film produced in 1922, Limelight was the only time in which the two would ever appear together on film. Buster Keaton is American by birth. [86] On July 1, 1942, the 18-year-old Robert and the 20-year-old Joseph made the name change permanent after their mother won a court petition. Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd advised him against making the move, cautioning that he would lose his independence. [69] Three Ages also featured parodies of Bible stories, like those of Samson and Daniel. Keaton made Steamboat Bill Jr., his last film with Buster Keaton Productions, in 1928. Production head Irving Thalberg would not permit Keaton to create a script from scratch because the studio had already purchased a stage property, Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath, at the suggestion of Lawrence Weingarten, who was Thalberg's brother-in-law and Keaton's producer. "[5] In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him as the 21st-greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema.[6]. This was witnessed by the magician Harry Houdini (or, some say, actor George Pardey), who christened the hearty boy Buster. His greatest works from . "I took out 40 useless characters and a couple of subplots. After Robert's birth, the marriage began to suffer. The act was mainly a comedy sketch. The International Buster Keaton Society was founded on October 4, 1992: Keaton's birthday. At the end of the day, he asked to borrow one of the cameras to get a feel for how it worked. His father owned a traveling show called the 'Mohawk Indian Medicine Company' along with Harry Houdini. [72] Audiences of the 1920s recognized the parody and thought the film hysterically funny. Her sister, Norma Talmadge, was married to Joseph Schenck, owner of Comique Films the company that Keaton managed. In Go West (1925), he is stared down by a herd of cattle. Jimmy assists Spencer Tracy's character, Captain C. G. Culpepper, by readying Culpepper's ultimately-unused boat for his abortive escape. that he was soon Arbuckle's second director and his entire gag department. Keaton thought the premise was totally unsuitable, and was uncomfortable with his directors Jules White and Zion Myers, who emphasized blunt slapstick. Keaton's character emerged unscathed, due to a single open window. He re-enacted a famous Keaton stunt for the finale of Jackass Number Two. His unit remained intact and was not broken up to provide replacements, as happened to some other late-arriving divisions. . CAMERA MAN Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, . In Seven Chances (1925), he faces a rockslide. On May 29, 1940, Keaton married Eleanor Norris, who was 23 years his junior. "stuntmen don't get you laughs," Keaton had said.[43]. [87], With the failure of his marriage and the loss of his independence as a filmmaker, Keaton descended into alcoholism. In the end, I gave up like a fool and said 'what the hell?' His mother nicknamed him Jimmy. 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). [107], In 2012, Kino Lorber released The Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection, a 14-disc Blu-ray box set of Keaton's work, including 11 of his feature films.[108]. Keaton was presented with a 1959 Academy Honorary Award at the 32nd Academy Awards, held in April 1960. [69] When Keaton transposed his experience in vaudeville to film, in many works he parodied melodramas. 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. $49.99 [52], From 1950 through 1964, Keaton made around 70 guest appearances on television variety shows, including those of Ed Sullivan and Garry Moore. He kept getting it mixed up. In Our Hospitality (1923), a film about a mountain feud, Keaton shot both a novel train scene and waterfall scene on location. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 966 Hollywood Loses Tavo Hedda Hopper, Lamar Green 217. Csblnc Flashback Open.mov. Afterward, I only gradually realized what kind of family I was inheriting. 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. This channel is dedicated to the genius of Buster Keaton and family. [98] A 1987 documentary, Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, won two Emmy Awards.[99]. The first of MGM's Keaton films was The Cameraman (1928), and Keaton sensed trouble immediately when he saw the script. Born into a performing family, Keaton's father Joe owned a traveling vaudeville show with Like Arbuckle before him, Keaton began directing films that he appeared in. The short also featured the impression of a performing monkey which was likely derived from a co-biller's act (called Peter the Great). He made me believe in make-believe." Shortly after his son's birth, Joseph Keaton changed his son's name to Joseph Francis Keaton. His career declined when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and lost his artistic independence. Michigan, but due to Covid-19 it will be online, with screenings, rare footage and appearances by family members. Plus two cats, a dog, and a St. Bernard. [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. "[22], Keaton said he had so much fun that he sometimes began laughing as his father threw him across the stage. 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 . [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". Diane Keaton knew she made the best decision of her life when she pursued adoption more than two decades ago. Buster Keaton With Family Rare Candid 8x10 Photo. His life quickly spiraled downward. Rapf, Joanna E. and Green, Gary L. (1995), This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 07:22. Buster KEATON from tree Compton-Queen Family Tree_2011-02-01. He opened his jacket and he was all bruised. At my studio they would have the characters I wanted in 10 minutes. Keaton, Eleanor and Jeffrey Vance. Keaton's widow, Eleanor, attended for a couple of years. [67] He played the central role in Samuel Beckett's Film (1965), directed by Alan Schneider. Most of these parodies targeted acts with which Keaton had shared the bill. Keaton then refused to appear at a publicity event, and was fired 48 hours later. . His first directorial effort, The High Sign, was a short that apparently did not work very well. His mother, sister and brother (and his family) all lived with him. Keaton suffered from several personal crises as well. By 1923, Keaton was making full-length features. A 1905 ad for The Three Keatons read: "Maybe you think you were handled roughly as a kid watch the way they handle Buster!". 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 became enthralled with the area, and beginning in 1907, the family returned annually. It's just where his parents, two traveling vaudevillians, happened to be performing. To the world, he was the famous silent film star Buster Keaton, but to Melissa Talmadge Cox of Cloverdale, he was simply Grandpa Buster. Fairbanks recommended Keaton to take the role[citation needed] for the remake five years later, since the film was to have a comic slant. The Day the Laughter Stopped. Buster Keaton as a child with his parents . "Medicine Man" was completed but not aired. 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. [49], Keaton accepted various character roles in both "A" and "B" features. A third of her Life when she pursued adoption more than $ 600,000making it most... 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