His career declined when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and lost his artistic independence. Reaction was strong enough for a local Los Angeles station to offer Keaton his own show, also broadcast live, in 1950. [26][27], Keaton spent the summers of 19081916 "at the 'Actor's Colony' in the Bluffton neighborhood of Muskegon, along with other famous vaudevillians. Pioneer in Film Industry. In 1933, he married his nurse Mae Scriven during an alcoholic binge about which he afterwards claimed to remember nothing. Unfortunately, his one attempt at a strong dramatic role, the lead in the weak biopic The Buster Keaton Story (1957) proved to be . Myra played the saxophone to one side, while Joe and Keaton performed center stage. [56] In December 1958, Keaton was a guest star in the episode "A Very Merry Christmas" of The Donna Reed Show on ABC. He escaped a straitjacket with tricks learned from Harry Houdini. Though it would come to be regarded as Keaton's greatest achievement, the film received mixed reviews at the time. Educational primarily distributed short subjects; it is best known for its series of comedies starring Buster Keaton (1934-37) and the earliest screen appearances . On February 1, 1966, Keaton died of lung cancer in Woodland Hills, California. In 1965, Keaton appeared in a short film written and shot by French existentialist playwright Samuel Beckett entitled simply Film. Two years later she changed their sons' last name to Talmadge. In Our Hospitality (1923), a film about a mountain feud, Keaton shot both a novel train scene and waterfall scene on location. 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. "I took out 40 useless characters and a couple of subplots. 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. 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. Joseph Frank Keaton IV was born October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas. Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Free shipping. He had his sound debut in The Hollywood Revue of 1929, then made eight more films under his Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract. Everybody else in the studio likes the story. His father was Joseph Hallie "Joe" Keaton who had a traveling show called the Mohawk Indian Medicine Company, which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side. "[5] In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him as the 21st-greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema.[6]. [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. On May 29, 1940, Keaton married Eleanor Norris, who was 23 years his junior. He supported them all. This will be the festival's return to Iola. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. His wife divorced him, and he descended into alcoholism. 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. Joseph Frank Keaton (1895 - 1966) Atria: 432 . Buster joined his family's act at a very young age. . Several factors, other than the loss of creative control, contributed to Keaton's downward spiral in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He first appeared on stage in 1899 in Wilmington, Delaware. I do all that but I do a lot more with my three-year-old grandson. 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. Buster Keaton and Marceline Day in The Cameraman, 1928. After her step-grandmother Eleanor died in 1998, Cox became the family's Goodwill Ambassador on behalf of her Grandpa Buster. Harold Lloyd made us laugh as much, Charlie Chaplin moved us more deeply, but no one had more courage than Buster."[103]. "[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. The son of . His life quickly spiraled downward. Most of these parodies targeted acts with which Keaton had shared the bill. 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. [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". [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. However, Keaton was always able to show the authorities that he had no bruises or broken bones. Keaton was such a natural in his first film, The Butcher Boy, he was hired on the spot. By this time, Keaton had further developed his distinct signature style that consisted of lucidity and precision along with acrobatics of ballistic precision and kineticism. Keaton thought the premise was totally unsuitable, and was uncomfortable with his directors Jules White and Zion Myers, who emphasized blunt slapstick. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. The giant studio was run along strict factory lines, with everything planned and budgeted in advance. "[31] The more adventurous ideas called for dangerous stunts, performed by Keaton at great physical risk. The studio replaced Edwards, who had substance-abuse problems, with nightclub comedian Jimmy Durante. [7] The General is viewed as his masterpiece: Orson Welles considered it "the greatest comedy ever madeand perhaps the greatest film ever made". . After Keaton's successful work with Arbuckle, Schenck gave him his own production unit, Buster Keaton Productions. The death this week of, children. Cox moved with her family to Cloverdale in the . [80], On May 31, 1921, Keaton married Natalie Talmadge, his leading lady in Our Hospitality, and the sister of actresses Norma Talmadge (married to his business partner Joseph M. Schenck at the time) and Constance Talmadge, at Norma's home in Bayside, Queens. The map below shows the places where the ancestors of the famous person lived. 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. He stated that he learned to read and write late, and was taught by his mother. Yallop, David (1976). Buster Keaton is an American actor, known in the world of cinema as "The Great Stone Face" The popularity of the artist at the peak of his career was comparable to the demand of Charlie Chaplin. [40] In 1934, Keaton accepted an offer to make an independent film in Paris, Le Roi des Champs-lyses. Kinescopes were made for distribution of the programs to other parts of the country, since there was no transcontinental coaxial cable until September 1951. Harry N. Abrams, 2001, pg. 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. . Keaton had never paid much attention to the business side of the film industry, and he paid a hefty price. Buster Keaton Remembered. 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. [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. In 1949, Keaton appeared on television for the first time. The spectacular stunt cost $42,000 to makea huge amount at the time. 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. A scene from Steamboat Bill, Jr. required Keaton to stand still on a particular spot. CAMERA MAN Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, . [59] In 1961, he starred in The Twilight Zone episode "Once Upon a Time", which included both silent and sound sequences. (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. "Introduction." Though The General (1926) was successful in retrospect, at the time it was critically derided. 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. Keaton's contract with MGM was ended in 1933. 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! [60], In 1961, Keaton appeared in promotional films for Maryvale, a housing development in the western part of Phoenix. When she saw the little house, she flew into a rage: she thought the house was much too small, with no place for servants. [46] Keaton had a free hand in staging the films, within the studio's budgetary limits and using its staff writers. His great period began in 1923 when he appeared in The Three Ages and a year later he made a full length comedy . (The restored version of that film, released in 2013, contains a scene where Jimmy and Culpeper talk on the telephone. ", "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. Keaton became the new head of the company, which was owned by Joseph Schenck (who later became Keaton's brother in law). The only time he ever laughed on screen was in an Arbuckle movie, Fatty at Coney Island (1917). Michigan, but due to Covid-19 it will be online, with screenings, rare footage and appearances by family members. During his first meeting with Arbuckle, he was asked to jump in and start acting. 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. A scene from "Our Hospitality," the feature film at the 2013 Buster Keaton Convention in Muskegon. They had two sons: Joseph, called James[81] (June 2, 1922 February 14, 2007),[82] and Robert (February 3, 1924 July 19, 2009).[83]. 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). Keaton said that he canceled the filmed series himself, because he was unable to create enough fresh material to produce a new show each week. 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. This channel is dedicated to the genius of Buster Keaton and family. Please try again. By the time he was five, Buster was formally added to the family act and instantly made "The Three Keatons" a success. 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 medium revitalized his career. [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 lost creative control of his pictures, and, like his father before him, developed a nasty drinking problem. He made me believe in make-believe." But it's even more pleasurable to get back to the presentwhere brooding, miserable, non-smiling Humphrey Bogart really shines. [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]. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 966 Hollywood Loses Tavo Hedda Hopper, Lamar Green 217. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. By 1917, Joseph Keaton had developed severe problems with alcohol and the family's act was dissolved. ", In 1954, Keaton and Eleanor met film programmer Raymond Rohauer, with whom they developed a business partnership to re-release his films. The Society's nickname, the "Damfinos," draws its name from a boat in Keaton's 1921 comedy, The Boat. 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. In 1926, comedian, writer, and director Buster Keaton made a film titled The General, which featured a stunt involving an actual train falling from a burning bridge into a river. In 1920, Arbuckle left Comique Films for Paramount. . Allegedly, Keaton suffered a nasty fall, but displayed a nonchalant reaction to it. [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. Keaton's writers included Clyde Bruckman, Joseph Mitchell, and Jean Havez, but the most ingenious gags were generally conceived by Keaton himself. 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. During this period, he made another film in England, The Invader (released in the United States as An Old Spanish Custom in 1936).[45]. Last year, she went to Germany for a Buster Keaton Film Festival. Record information. 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. Jimmy assists Spencer Tracy's character, Captain C. G. Culpepper, by readying Culpepper's ultimately-unused boat for his abortive escape. Twenty-five years after the divorce, she would not permit his name to be spoken in her house. Free shipping for many products! ", 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. Today, she regularly travels around the country, attending film festivals and conventions in his honor. Fairbanks recommended Keaton to take the role[citation needed] for the remake five years later, since the film was to have a comic slant. He was a motion picture comic actor, writer, producer, and director of the 1910s thru 1960s. For most grandfathers, this means doing puzzles on the living room floor or pushing their grandchild on a swing. [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. While it's debatable Keaton's family life was the root of his deterioration, one factor that certainly bothered him was his marriage. 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. 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. . 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. [73] The film's opening intertitles give it its mock-serious tone, and are taken from "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" by Robert W. 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. His first directorial effort, The High Sign, was a short that apparently did not work very well. [38] But, given Schenck's desire to keep things "in the family" and Keaton's having to admit that his independent pictures hadn't done well, Keaton agreed to sign with MGM. He continued to appear on television until his death. Irving was usually on my side, but this time he said, 'Larry likes it. By the time he was three, Keaton had become part of his parents' act, renamed "The Three Keatons." 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". 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. The arrival of the sound era in 1929 did not work in his favor because of his voice. [84] Natalie's extravagance was another factor, spending up to a third of her husband's earnings. [90] After undergoing aversion therapy, he stopped drinking for five years.[91]. Keaton found his footing with his next film, One Week (1920), which focused on the tribulations of a do-it-yourself house. The "Great Stone Face" died in 1966, aged 70. MGM had been featuring comical musician Cliff Edwards in Keaton's films. [105], Actor and stunt performer Johnny Knoxville cites Keaton as an inspiration when coming up with ideas for Jackass projects. 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 received the nickname "Buster" while still an infant. Sarah Porter , Joseph Judson, Isabeau de DAMPIERRE , John de FIENNES, Brangre de CASTILLE , Alfonse Ix de CASTILLE. After Robert's birth, the marriage began to suffer. His talent led the family to New York City and, in 1909, to an appearance in London. I Image: Wikimedia Commons. By 1923, Keaton was making full-length features. Keaton died of lung cancer on February 1, 1966, aged 70, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. In this film, he broke his neck, but did not discover it until ten years later. Keaton soon discovered that his brand of comedy, especially his deadpan facial expressions, worked very well on film. Buster Keaton Remembered. Rami Malek and Buster Keaton Samir Hussein/WireImage/John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images. Battling Butler (1926), a boxing movie, was a commercial success. (Arbuckle was eventually acquitted, with an apology from the jury for the ordeal he underwent.[30]). In a British television documentary about his career, his widow Eleanor told producers from Thames Television that Keaton was up out of bed and moving around, and even played cards with friends who came to visit the day before he died. In the end, I gave up like a fool and said 'what the hell?' He returned to the program in 1965 in the episode "Now You See It, Now You Don't". 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