[40] In 1934, Keaton accepted an offer to make an independent film in Paris, Le Roi des Champs-lyses. In 2022, two works on Keaton appeared within a month of each other. 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 Remembered. The one-story house, built in 1947, was bought with the $50,000 given to Buster by Paramount for the screen rights to his life story. Vance, Jeffrey. Though this was a partnership, Cline later acknowledged that Keaton did much of the work. Go Outside. In the last analysis, no one came near him. ), Keaton was so demoralized during the production of 1933's What! Keaton was born into a vaudeville family. 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. 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. 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. Later, Keaton changed his middle name to "Francis". His parents, Joe and Myra, were both veteran vaudevillian actors, and Keaton himself first began performing at the age of 3 when . Record information. Pioneer in Film Industry. A scene from Steamboat Bill, Jr. required Keaton to stand still on a particular spot. Actor James Mason had bought the Keatons' house and found numerous cans of films, among which was Keaton's long-lost classic The Boat. His talent led the family to New York City and, in 1909, to an appearance in London. In College (1927), Keaton was engaged in every athletic sport except football, but it was a disappointment. Later, the family had two more children. Upon Keaton's return to Hollywood in 1934, he made a screen comeback in two-reel comedies for Educational Pictures. 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. Father of Private and James Talmadge His mother, sister and brother (and his family) all lived with him. [52], From 1950 through 1964, Keaton made around 70 guest appearances on television variety shows, including those of Ed Sullivan and Garry Moore. He estimated that he and his wife Eleanor made thousands of hats during his career. [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. Childhood & Early Life. I n the shadow of a massive dune known as Pigeon Hill. His mother nicknamed him Jimmy. 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. The child labor laws of which the Keaton family continually ran afoul; the very notion of institutionalized if widely varying child welfare practices; the state of the film industry in the first . Keaton's periodic television appearances during the 1950s and 1960s helped to revive interest in his silent films. They had two sons: Joseph, called James[81] (June 2, 1922 February 14, 2007),[82] and Robert (February 3, 1924 July 19, 2009).[83]. The medium revitalized his career. Within the family it had become a joke. Keaton then refused to appear at a publicity event, and was fired 48 hours later. On February 1, 1966, Keaton died of lung cancer in Woodland Hills, California. Era By BOB THOMAS H list grows thin. 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. For most grandfathers, this means doing puzzles on the living room floor or pushing their grandchild on a swing. In 1926, audiences were amazed by the daredevil antics of comedian Buster Keaton in the movie "The General . Everybody else in the studio likes the story. He is the first action hero; to be precise, he is a small, pale-faced American who is startled, tripped, drenched and inspired into becoming a hero. in Piqua, Kansas, USA , United States, Died on February 01, 1966 But not MGM. Record information. (The restored version of that film, released in 2013, contains a scene where Jimmy and Culpeper talk on the telephone. By Dana Stevens. 1. [96] Keaton has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 6619 Hollywood Boulevard (for motion pictures); and 6225 Hollywood Boulevard (for television). Keaton suffered from several personal crises as well. His third wife was a dancer named Eleanor Ruth Norris. Allegedly, Keaton suffered a nasty fall, but displayed a nonchalant reaction to it. 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. 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. [102], Film critic Roger Ebert stated, "The greatest of the silent clowns is Buster Keaton, not only because of what he did, but because of how he did it. The resulting film, The Buster Keaton Story (1957) starring Donald O'Connor, was frankly terrible (Eleanor recalled attending a preview with Buster and how they "felt like crawling out on our hands and knees"), but it did give them the ability to finally . Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. The first of MGM's Keaton films was The Cameraman (1928), and Keaton sensed trouble immediately when he saw the script. ", 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. Rapf, Joanna E. and Green, Gary L. (1995), This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 07:22. Keaton's art has inspired full academic study. [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. However, Keaton was always able to show the authorities that he had no bruises or broken bones. Also, soundstages were then at a premium, and MGM usually reserved them for dramatic productions. With complete artistic control, he developed his own working methodology and made about two pictures per year. "[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. No Beer? On May 31, 1921, Keaton was married time to Natalie Talmadge. He had a cameo as Jimmy, appearing near the end of the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). His father was Joseph Hallie "Joe" Keaton, a native of Vigo County, Indiana. Noticing that this caused the audience to laugh less, he adopted his famous deadpan expression when performing. Buster Keaton's full name is Joseph Frank Keaton and his nickname is Buster Keaton. that he was soon Arbuckle's second director and his entire gag department. Keaton's character emerged unscathed, due to a single open window. 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. Yallop, David (1976). He was born into a vaudeville family; his father's name was Joseph Keaton while his mother's was Myra. 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 . Who was I to say I was right and everyone was wrong? 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. 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. [56] In December 1958, Keaton was a guest star in the episode "A Very Merry Christmas" of The Donna Reed Show on ABC. Keaton's loss of independence as a filmmaker coincided with the coming of sound films (although he was interested in making the transition) and mounting personal problems, and his career in the early sound era was hurt as a result. A century has passed since Buster Keaton entered the plum decade of his career. [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." In 1994, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld penned a series of silent film stars for the United States Post Office, including Rudolph Valentino and Keaton. The map below shows the places where the ancestors of the famous person lived. [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". "She just hated the man to death," said her grandson Jim. 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. He re-enacted a famous Keaton stunt for the finale of Jackass Number Two. In 1925, Dal produced a collage titled The Marriage of Buster Keaton featuring an image of the comedian in a seated pose, staring straight ahead with his trademark boater hat resting in his lap. 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. When a grant that funded the program ended in 2017, the festival moved to Kansas City for a year. Keaton, Eleanor and Jeffrey Vance. Please try again. [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. 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. In 1920, Keaton made his first full-length feature, The Saphead, playing the straight man, Bertie "The Lamb" Van Alstyne. "Introduction." Michigan, but due to Covid-19 it will be online, with screenings, rare footage and appearances by family members. Keaton retold the anecdote over the years, including in a 1964 interview with the CBC's Telescope. Buster Keaton. Then in his twenties, he had outgrown his family vaudeville act, whose violent acrobatics had relied on a size . 'tendell of Pittsburgh Gas Com- ern District Grand Lodge of.^, 1, Col. 8) KOONEY Shucked By Tragedy HOLLYWOOD deadpan comedian. Director William Asher recalled: I always loved Buster Keaton. He would bring me bits and routines. Cox moved with her family to Cloverdale in the . The arrival of the sound era in 1929 did not work in his favor because of his voice. The most famous was legendary silent film star, Buster Keaton. Irving was usually on my side, but this time he said, 'Larry likes it. 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. 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. [69] Three Ages also featured parodies of Bible stories, like those of Samson and Daniel. The laconic Keaton and the rambunctious Durante offered enough contrast to function as a team, resulting in three very successful films: Speak Easily (1932), The Passionate Plumber (1932), and What! Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. login . Because of Keaton's success, and a notorious scandal involving Arbuckle, Comique Films was renamed Buster Keaton Productions. Although forces opposed to child labor tried to keep him off the stage, Keaton soon became an integral part of the show. 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). Geni requires JavaScript! He Was Born On The Road. Melissa Talmadge Cox wonderful talk about her grandpa, Buster Keaton and the Talmadge sisters and family. [72] Audiences of the 1920s recognized the parody and thought the film hysterically funny. The General was a Civil War romance, that featured many impressive chase scenes and one very expensive special effects shot. "[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. Lost after the comedy epic's "roadshow" exhibition, the audio of that scene was discovered and combined with still pictures to recreate the scene.). 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. 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 program also promoted the release of the biographical film The Buster Keaton Story with Donald O'Connor. The innovative special effects he developed for The Playhouse made him an early leader in the field. In 1965, Keaton starred in the short film The Railrodder for the National Film Board of Canada. One of the best of this era was Grand Slam Opera. 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. As a baby, he tumbled all the way down a flight of stairs to the landing below. As for The General, where do you start? [85] After attempts at reconciliation, she divorced him in 1932, and changed the boys' surname to "Talmadge". Two of his best films were made in 1924. [61][62][63][64][65], Meanwhile, Keaton's big-screen career continued. In 1920, Arbuckle left Comique Films for Paramount. 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. The first was Sherlock Jr., in which a daydreaming projectionist who longs to be a detective becomes part of the movie he is showing. Employing picturesque locations, the film's storyline reenacted an actual wartime incident. ", "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. During his first meeting with Arbuckle, he was asked to jump in and start acting. But the laughter died Tuesday when, Piqua, Woodson County, Kansas, United States, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, Woodland Hills, California, United States, Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, Descendants of William Peck(1601-1694) Elizabeth(Davis)Peck (1608-1683), "Buster", "The Great Stone Face", "Malec", Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, Legendary motion picture comic actor, writer, producer, and director, Actor. So that's how he did itit hurtbut you had to care enough not to care. 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. His first was a parody of the famous D.W. Griffith film Intolerance (1916), entitled The Three Ages. 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. He also admitted to borrowing the idea of the changing room scene in The Cameraman for his own film Silent Movie. This will be the festival's return to Iola. 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. 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. Jimmy assists Spencer Tracy's character, Captain C. G. Culpepper, by readying Culpepper's ultimately-unused boat for his abortive escape. Adding to his mystique was a background on the vaudeville stage with all its tricks and sleight of hand. 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 stated that he learned to read and write late, and was taught by his mother. The son of . 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). 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). [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). Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Alone in New York City, Buster was walking down the street when he encountered Lou Anger, an old family friend from their days on the road. This combination of talents proved felicitous when Keaton inevitably aged out of the family act and started making movies. Keaton appeared in 14 Arbuckle shorts between 1917 and 1919, including His Wedding Night (1917) and The Bell Boy (1918). He appeared on screen simultaneously nine times. Melissa Talmadge Cox is the granddaughter of Buster Keaton and a long time resident of Cloverdale. None of them were very good. 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. He returned to the program in 1965 in the episode "Now You See It, Now You Don't". They became enthralled with the area, and beginning in 1907, the family returned annually. [92] The marriage lasted until his death. Filmmaker Mel Brooks has credited Keaton as a major influence, saying: "I owe (Buster) a lot on two levels: One for being such a great teacher for me as a filmmaker myself, and the other just as a human being watching this gifted person doing these amazing things. The death this week of, children. In Seven Chances (1925), he faces a rockslide. He kept getting it mixed up. 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. This equilibrium came into play with The Playhouse (1921), which he also wrote and directed with Cline. Keaton spent $42,000 on sending a train into a burning bridge. Today, she regularly travels around the country, attending film festivals and conventions in his honor. Later, Keaton changed his middle name to "Francis". He appeared on shows such as Playhouse 90, Route 66, and The Twilight Zone. Early Days in Vaudeville - 1895-1917. 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. A video shows silent film star Buster Keaton performing a risky stunt on a moving train. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment. They were popular, and contrary to Keaton's later reputation as "The Great Stone Face", he often smiled and even laughed in them. "[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. No Beer? 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. Keaton was a seminal comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, and director that shaped the industry for years to come, even though the industry stole the creative control that made his early films so valuable. [71] Keaton directed the film, along with Edward F. Cline. [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. That same year, he was put under contract by Educational Films and returned to making shorts. Much of the film was shot on location on the Sacramento River, which doubled for the Mississippi River setting of Twain's book. Keaton also directed three one-reel novelty shorts for the studio, but these did not result in further directorial assignments. He'd say, "How about this?" The General, set during the American Civil War, combined physical comedy with Keaton's love of trains,[33] including an epic locomotive chase. 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