Between 1947 and 1954, the couple appeared regularly in the Cirque Medrano in Paris as a double act. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine show that included family friend, illusionist Harry Houdini. [46] Keaton had a free hand in staging the films, within the studio's budgetary limits and using its staff writers. The General, set during the American Civil War, combined physical comedy with Keaton's love of trains,[33] including an epic locomotive chase. Allegedly, Keaton suffered a nasty fall, but displayed a nonchalant reaction to it. [69] Three Ages (1923), his first feature-length film, is a parody of D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), from which it replicates the three inter-cut shorts structure. Also, soundstages were then at a premium, and MGM usually reserved them for dramatic productions. He had his sound debut in The Hollywood Revue of 1929, then made eight more films under his Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract. Caryn James wrote in The New York Times, "Keaton's television appearances are warm and enduring. 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. The only time he ever laughed on screen was in an Arbuckle movie, Fatty at Coney Island (1917). Geni requires JavaScript! In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine show that included family friend . 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. 29. Keaton's contract with MGM was ended in 1933. It was not released until 1921. 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. "I went over (Weingarten's) head and appealed to Irving Thalberg to help get me out of the assignment. But it's even more pleasurable to get back to the presentwhere brooding, miserable, non-smiling Humphrey Bogart really shines. Buster Keaton's full name is Joseph Frank Keaton and his nickname is Buster Keaton. 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. The Colony celebrate Joe Keaton's birthday with a parade through Bluffton. The studio replaced Edwards, who had substance-abuse problems, with nightclub comedian Jimmy Durante. Their routine had relied on physical prowess and exact timing, and required reliable performers. That same year, he was put under contract by Educational Films and returned to making shorts. He traveled from one end of Canada to the other on a motorized handcar, wearing his traditional pork pie hat and performing gags similar to those in films that he made 50 years before. The director was usually Jules White, whose emphasis on slapstick and farce made most of these films resemble White's famous Three Stooges shorts. Free shipping for many products! His father was Joseph Hallie "Joe" Keaton, a native of Vigo County, Indiana. He would return often. Aerial stuntmen and daredevils from around 1920s - 1940s. Much of the film was shot on location on the Sacramento River, which doubled for the Mississippi River setting of Twain's book. Within the family it had become a joke. Keaton married for the final time in 1940. So that's how he did itit hurtbut you had to care enough not to care. Keaton's other 1924 film, The Navigator, was shot on an ocean liner and directed with Donald Crisp. ", In 1954, Keaton and Eleanor met film programmer Raymond Rohauer, with whom they developed a business partnership to re-release his films. Sarah Porter , Joseph Judson, Isabeau de DAMPIERRE , John de FIENNES, Brangre de CASTILLE , Alfonse Ix de CASTILLE. They were popular, and contrary to Keaton's later reputation as "The Great Stone Face", he often smiled and even laughed in them. 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. [24] Despite tangles with the law, Keaton was a rising star in the theater. 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. In 2018 filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich released The Great Buster: A Celebration, a documentary about Keaton's life, career, and legacy. You are the only one who doesn't.' Joseph Frank Keaton (1895 - 1966) Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. 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. 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. By 1923, Keaton was making full-length features. Their son began appearing on stage with them as early as nine months of age. Keaton is rumored to have gotten the name Buster from Harry Houdini himself. It's true that Keaton was born in Piqua on October 4, 1895but it wasn't his home. Best known for his silent film work, Keaton was ranked as the 21st-greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute in 1999. In 1994, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld penned a series of silent film stars for the United States Post Office, including Rudolph Valentino and Keaton. 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. Buster Keaton was an American actor, comedian, stage artist, writer, and director who has been credited as "the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies" by critic and historian Roger Ebert. Keaton then refused to appear at a publicity event, and was fired 48 hours later. After her step-grandmother Eleanor died in 1998, Cox became the family's Goodwill Ambassador on behalf of her Grandpa Buster. They were married in Mexico on January 1, 1932, before his divorce was final; then again legally in 1933. Keaton endured this treatment for two more feature films, and then exchanged his independent setup for employment at Hollywood's biggest studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The first ten minutes of The General tell us everything we need to know about its embrace of the Confederacy and its white supremacy. Keaton was born into a vaudeville family. [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". Keaton's last commercial film appearance was in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), which was filmed in Spain in SeptemberNovember 1965. Confined to a hospital during his final days, Keaton was restless and paced the room endlessly, desiring to return home. He was born Joseph Frank Keaton on October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas, the eldest of three children, including a younger brother and sister, born to two vaudevillians, Joseph Hallie Keaton and Myra Cutler. He appeared on screen simultaneously nine times. Record information. In 1920, Arbuckle left Comique Films for Paramount. Two years later she changed their sons' last name to Talmadge. Buster Keaton and Marceline Day in The Cameraman, 1928. [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. [57] In August 1960, Keaton played mute King Sextimus the Silent in the national touring company of the Broadway musical Once Upon A Mattress. Scriven claimed that she didn't know Keaton's real first name until after the marriage. Vance, Jeffrey. On February 1, 1966, Keaton died of lung cancer in Woodland Hills, California. Born on October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas, as Joseph Francis Keaton. His wife divorced him, and he descended into alcoholism. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. After Keaton's successful work with Arbuckle, Schenck gave him his own production unit, Buster Keaton Productions. Joseph Frank Keaton IV was born October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas. [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. [90] After undergoing aversion therapy, he stopped drinking for five years.[91]. In 2023, Keatons life and work was depicted in the graphic novel biography Buster: A Life in Pictures written by Ryan Barnett and illustrated by Matthew Tavares. Diane Keaton knew she made the best decision of her life when she pursued adoption more than two decades ago. Harold Lloyd made us laugh as much, Charlie Chaplin moved us more deeply, but no one had more courage than Buster."[103]. He was a student at Blackfox Military Academy and a graduate of Santa Monica High School. 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 . His career declined when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and lost his artistic independence. The guest of honor and his bride Myra Keaton ride Minnie . One of the best of this era was Grand Slam Opera. Much more thoroughly than Chaplin, he managed a near-perfect, and highly expressive, harmony between the roles of performer and filmmaker." [60], In 1961, Keaton appeared in promotional films for Maryvale, a housing development in the western part of Phoenix. Realizing that his bride wanted a palace, he sold the cottage to MGM executive Eddie Mannix at cost, and commissioned Gene Verge Sr. in 1926 to build a 10,000-square-foot (930m2) estate in Beverly Hills for $300,000, which was later owned by James Mason and Cary Grant. He was every member of the audience as well as every performer. Buster Keaton With Camera Rare Candid 8x10 Photo. Buster Keaton Remembered. [72] Audiences of the 1920s recognized the parody and thought the film hysterically funny. Keaton retold the anecdote over the years, including in a 1964 interview with the CBC's Telescope. Man Humor. Behind the camera, Keaton worked with a co-director, Eddie Cline, with whom he collaborated several times. His impassive features gave him the nickname "The Great Stone Face.". 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. The Educational two-reelers have far more pantomime than his earlier talkies, and Keaton is in good form throughout. American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer, Born on October 04, 1895 ), Keaton was so demoralized during the production of 1933's What! The high point in the Educational series is Grand Slam Opera (1936), featuring Keaton in his own screenplay as an amateur-hour contestant. Free shipping. 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. [26][27], Keaton spent the summers of 19081916 "at the 'Actor's Colony' in the Bluffton neighborhood of Muskegon, along with other famous vaudevillians. A scene from Steamboat Bill, Jr. required Keaton to stand still on a particular spot. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award in 1959. The first of MGM's Keaton films was The Cameraman (1928), and Keaton sensed trouble immediately when he saw the script. A vaudeville child star, Keaton grew up to be a tinkerer, an athlete, a visual mathematician; his films offer belly laughs of mind-boggling physical invention and a spacey determination that nears philosophical grandeur. Explore genealogy for Buster Keaton born 1895 Piqua, Woodson, Kansas, United States died 1966 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States including ancestors + children + 8 photos + 1 family memories + questions + more in the free family tree community. "[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. 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. 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. He'd say, "How about this?" This will be the festival's return to Iola. He received the nickname "Buster" while still an infant. [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". The first was Sherlock Jr., in which a daydreaming projectionist who longs to be a detective becomes part of the movie he is showing. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Rapf, Joanna E. and Green, Gary L. (1995), This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 07:22. In addition to appearing in numerous commercials (including one for Alka-Seltzer), Keaton made many guest appearances in both comedies and dramas. 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. The giant studio was run along strict factory lines, with everything planned and budgeted in advance. [29] Keaton later said[where?] Keaton returned to film by the 1950s. [94] He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, California.[95]. 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". With complete artistic control, he developed his own working methodology and made about two pictures per year. A century has passed since Buster Keaton entered the plum decade of his career. They became enthralled with the area, and beginning in 1907, the family returned annually. Jimmy assists Spencer Tracy's character, Captain C. G. Culpepper, by readying Culpepper's ultimately-unused boat for his abortive escape. Service.[73]. (Thirty years later, both Keaton and Durante had cameo roles in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, albeit not in the same scenes. Keaton had designed and built a modest but comfortable, cottage-like home as a surprise wedding gift for his bride. It is the angle that you remember: the figure perfectly straight but tilted forward, like the Spirit of Ecstasy on the hood of a Rolls-Royce [in The Three Ages], he drives a low-grade automobile over a bump in the road, and the car just crumbles beneath him. CAMERA MAN Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, . He was eventually billed as "The Little Boy Who Can't Be Damaged", and the overall act as "The Roughest Act That Was Ever in the History of the Stage". Buster that the judge thought my mother was the bride! The son of . That's how Buster Keaton got his name, and the world got the third brilliant member of its silent-screen Comedic Triumvirate: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton. Keaton was the world's whipping boy and made the world love him for it. Educational Pictures, also known as Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. or Educational Films Corporation of America, was an American film production and film distribution company founded in 1916 by Earle (E. W.) Hammons (1882-1962). Battling Butler (1926), a boxing movie, was a commercial success. [13] The General has placed highly on the Sight & Sound poll, and Our Hospitality, Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator also received multiple votes. At the end of the day, he asked to borrow one of the cameras to get a feel for how it worked. Keaton then moved to full-length features. Joseph Frank Keatonthe silent film star belovedly known as Busterwas born the same year, 1895, that the Lumire brothers unveiled the first moving pictures to an audience of stunned Parisians. She filed for divorce in 1935 after finding him with Leah Clampitt Sewell, the wife of millionaire Barton Sewell,[88] in a hotel in Santa Barbara. The General was a Civil War romance, that featured many impressive chase scenes and one very expensive special effects shot. [54] In a series of silent television commercials for Simon Pure Beer made in 1962 by Jim Mohr in Buffalo, New York, Keaton revisited some of the gags from his silent film days. 616: Ruth Carbaugh 201; Elaine Weigle 513. Beginning in his early twenties, he enjoyed a decade-long stretch as the director, star, stuntman, editor, and all-around mastermind of some of the greatest silent comedies . Evolved from the knockabout upbringing of the vaudeville stage, Keaton's comedy is a whirlwind of hilarious, technically precise, adroitly executed, and surprising gags, very often set against a backdrop of visually stunning set pieces and locationsall this masked behind his unflinching, stoic veneer. According to one biographer, Keaton was made to go to school while performing in New York, but only attended for part of one day. 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. Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton's unique creative genius in the context of his time. However, Keaton was always able to show the authorities that he had no bruises or broken bones. He also admitted to borrowing the idea of the changing room scene in The Cameraman for his own film Silent Movie. Marriage: xxxx Ohio, USA: Record information. Keaton, Eleanor and Jeffrey Vance. Keaton supported himself throughout the 1940s by appearing on stage in Europe and the United States, and writing gags for MGM and 20th Century-Fox. Brother of Harry Stanley Keaton and Louise J. Keaton. 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. Because of Keaton's success, and a notorious scandal involving Arbuckle, Comique Films was renamed Buster Keaton Productions. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929" when he "worked . Sometimes it's hard to keep up with the latest celebrity news, but don't worry we have you covered. Irving was usually on my side, but this time he said, 'Larry likes it. Sherlock Jr. will be Keaton's most enduring commentary on the art of cinema. 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). Keaton also directed three one-reel novelty shorts for the studio, but these did not result in further directorial assignments. Buster Keaton With Family Rare Candid 8x10 Photo. ", 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. Who are Buster Keaton grandchildren? Afterward, I only gradually realized what kind of family I was inheriting. . By the time he was three, Keaton had become part of his parents' act, renamed "The Three Keatons." In Our Hospitality (1923), a film about a mountain feud, Keaton shot both a novel train scene and waterfall scene on location. They eventually had two sons, Joseph and Robert. 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. The film has a largely negative reputation, with renowned film historian Kevin Brownlow calling it the worst film ever made.[50]. The next project confirmed Keaton's fears about studio interference. Then in his twenties, he had outgrown his family vaudeville act, whose violent acrobatics had relied on a size . He kept getting it mixed up. Moviegoers and exhibitors welcomed Keaton's Columbia comedies. Sgt. [56] In December 1958, Keaton was a guest star in the episode "A Very Merry Christmas" of The Donna Reed Show on ABC. 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. His life quickly spiraled downward. [74][75] Critic and film historian Imogen Sara Smith stated about Keaton's style: "the coolness and subtlety of his style [is] very cinematic in terms of recognising that the camera can pick up very, very small effects".[74]. Like Arbuckle before him, Keaton began directing films that he appeared in. 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. 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. Keaton became the new head of the company, which was owned by Joseph Schenck (who later became Keaton's brother in law). Most of these parodies targeted acts with which Keaton had shared the bill. [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. 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). "I took out 40 useless characters and a couple of subplots. 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? A video shows silent film star Buster Keaton performing a risky stunt on a moving train. 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 . In 1933, he married his nurse Mae Scriven during an alcoholic binge about which he afterwards claimed to remember nothing. Later, Keaton changed his middle name to "Francis". in Piqua, Kansas, USA , United States, Died on February 01, 1966 "stuntmen don't get you laughs," Keaton had said.[43]. "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. [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. In today's dollars that would be the equivalent of more than $600,000making it the most . Critics rediscovered Keaton in 1949 and producers occasionally hired him for bigger "prestige" pictures. Everybody else in the studio likes the story. [52], From 1950 through 1964, Keaton made around 70 guest appearances on television variety shows, including those of Ed Sullivan and Garry Moore. [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. It's a knack. Yallop, David (1976). 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. The act was mainly a comedy sketch. [71] Keaton directed the film, along with Edward F. Cline. Joe Keaton owned a traveling show with Harry Houdini called the "Mohawk Indian Medicine Company", which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side. His father was Joseph Hallie "Joe" Keaton, a native of Vigo County, Indiana. Director William Asher recalled: I always loved Buster Keaton. He would bring me bits and routines. Keaton's widow, Eleanor, attended for a couple of years. Keaton's personal favorite was the series' debut, Pest from the West, a shorter, tighter remake of Keaton's little-viewed 1934 feature The Invader; it was directed not by White but by Del Lord, a veteran director for Mack Sennett. 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. [20]:18, At the age of three, Keaton began performing with his parents in The Three Keatons. The medium revitalized his career. A suitcase handle was sewn into Keaton's clothing to aid with the constant tossing. 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 grandchildren delighted in deliberately mentioning Buster's name. You had to requisition a toothpick in triplicate. 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