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Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (Joseph Francis Keaton), 1895-1966, American movie actor, b. Piqua, Kans. Considered one of the greatest comic actors in film history, Keaton used his considerable acrobatic skills, which he had developed as a child in vaudeville, in many silent comedies in which he portrayed a deadpa... Read more
clown
clown a comic character usually distinguished by garish makeup and costume whose antics are both humorously clumsy and acrobatic. The clown employs a broad, physical style of humor that is wordless or not as self-consciously verbal as the traditional fool or jester. Clownish figures appear in the... Read more
Western drama
Western drama plays produced in the Western world. This article discusses the development of Western drama in general; for further information see the various national literature articles. Greek Drama The Western dramatic tradition has its origins in ancient Greece. The precise evolution ... Read more
motion pictures
motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ). Origins Experiments in photographing mov... Read more

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Buster Keaton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Buster Keaton Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was one of the best known and most respected of...notorious scandal involving Arbuckle, Comique Films was renamed Buster Keaton Productions. Keaton, however
Keaton, Buster
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Keaton, Buster (1895–1966) US comic silent-film actor and director. Our Hospitality (1923), Seven Chances (1925) and The General (1926) are pre-eminent among the ten full-length features he released before 1928.
Humor
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Katzenjammer Kids and Frederick Opper's Happy Hooligan ) and such early motion picture stars as Charlie Chaplin , Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. In the interwar years, American humor continued to mirror an evolving American society and psyche...
Harold Lloyd
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...rimmed glasses providing him with a recognizable trademark comparable to Charlie Chaplin's black mustachio and Buster Keaton's deadpan expression, silent film actor Harold Lloyd matured from a film extra into one of America's most popular...
Jack Lemmon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...piano in the Old Knickerbocker Music Hall on Second Avenue as an accompanist to the silent films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. He also performed in skits there and tended bar, among other tasks. During his early years in the business he continued...
Lucille Ball
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...She worked with many comic "greats," including the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and Buster Keaton, with whom she honed her extraordinary skill in the handling of props. She gave a creditable performance as an aspiring...
Jacques Tati
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...in an increasingly mechanized society and drew positive comparisons to the silent film comedians Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. As co-writer, star, and director of these films, he sought to depict the foibles of society...
Marcus Loew
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...them Ben Hur, He Who Gets Slapped, and The Big Parade. The studio had contracts with such stars as Lillian Gish, Buster Keaton, and Greta Garbo. Loew's revenues, which had been $43 million in 1924, rose to $80 million in 1927. By then...
clown
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...exemplified by Emmett Kelly. By that time, however, motion pictures, especially the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton , began to supplant the live clown acts, relegating clowning to a circus sideshow entertainment. Bibliography: See...
Frank Capra
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...most notably with Harry Langdon, a silent clown usually placed fourth in the pantheon of great silent comedians after Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd. It was with Langdon that Capra made his first feature films, Tramp, Tramp...

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Keaton, Buster
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers KEATON, Buster Nationality: American. Born: Joseph Francis Keaton in Piqua, Kansas, 4 October 1895. Family: Married...age of four, appeared with his parents, Joe and Myra Keaton, in vaudeville act billed as The Three Keatons; 1917...
Sherlock, Jr.
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers SHERLOCK, JR. USA, 1924 Director: Buster Keaton Production: Metro Pictures and Buster Keaton Productions; black and white, 35mm...13, August 1996. Rommetveit, I., "Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr.," in Z Filmtidsskrift...
The General
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers THE GENERAL USA, 1926 Directors: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman Production: Buster Keaton Productions and United Artists; black...famous of the comedy features in which Buster Keaton starred, and in several cases directed...
Schenck, Joseph and Nicholas
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Buffalo (Franklin) 1927 The General (Keaton and Bruckman); Venus of Venice...mentor of noted movie stars from Buster Keaton to Marilyn Monroe. He first entered...Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and the Talmadge sisters, one...
Bruckman, Clyde
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2014;writer and director with Buster Keaton unit; mainly a director from 1926...into the 1950s, writing also for Keaton's and Abbott and Costello's TV...Features): 1923 The Three Ages (Keaton and Cline); The Rouged Lips (Shaw...
Durante, Jimmy
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...actors, Jimmy Durante was paired with Buster Keaton in the early 1930s. This combination would appear to have given Keaton some hope of making a smoother transition...comedian into the background. Urging Keaton to invest
Frisell, Bill
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...wrote an original score for the silent films of the comic Buster Keaton, and his music is heard in films by directors Gus van...Elektra, 1994); Go West: Music for the Films of Buston Keaton (Elektra/Nonesuch, 1995); Nashville (Elektra...
Arthur, Jean
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...The Hurricane Horseman (Eddy); Seven Chances (Buster Keaton) (as receptionist); Tearin' Loose (Thorpe); The...Young Eagles (Wellman) (as Mary Gordon) 1931 The Gang Buster (Sutherland) (as Sylvia Martine); Virtuous Husband...
Autant-Lara, Claude
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1923 Faits divers 1926 Construire un feu ; Vittel 1930 Buster se marie (d of French version of American film Parlor...costume des) 1968 Flash 29 (ro as himself) 1987 Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (for TV) (ro as himself) Publications...
The Kid
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...the Comedy of Melodrama," in Journal of Film and Video (Atlanta), vol. 46, no. 3, 1994. Gunning, Tom, "Buster Keaton or the Work of Comedy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Cineaste (New York), vol. 21, no. 3, 1995...

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Look at Comic Actor Buster Keaton, CBS
Transcript from: CBS News Sunday Morning; 5/20/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...see at the movies was Buster Keaton. And as Jerry Bowen is...to this day, Buster Keaton is among the very best...because she didn`t want Buster to slip at all. Today, people speak of Chaplin and Keaton in the same breath. I...
UNEARTHED BUSTER KEATON BRINGS SILENT MAGIC TO LIFE.(ACCENT)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/30/1995; 700+ words ; ...achievements. In ``The Playhouse,'' Keaton buys a ticket to a minstrel show and discovers that Buster Keaton, in differing costumes and drag...stage. Special effects? Hardly. Keaton was able to play nine Busters in a minstrel show by taping off...
Film World Celebrates the Genius of Buster Keaton
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 10/1/1995; 700+ words ; ...great, silent film comedian Buster Keaton, whose 100th birthday anniversary...Houdini to nickname his god-son Buster. Keaton learned as a kid that when he...and try out new comic routines. BUSTER KEATON: You just get an idea that...
Buster Keaton: Homage to the Master; PBS' Worthy Look Back at a King of Comedy
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/18/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...Ignoring the contribution Buster Keaton made to American culture...when Hollywood made "The Buster Keaton Story" in 1957, it concocted...cutesy about it. When Keaton's alcoholism is noted, and a crony recalls, "Buster drank out of loneliness...
Buster Keaton, Seriously Funny
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; Next to Garbo, Buster Keaton possessed the most exquisite...All in all, life in Keaton's movies is a fairly...The details of young Buster's early life are famously...Joseph Francis "Buster" Keaton was born in Piqua, Kan...
Buster Keaton revisited, redundantly
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/8/2005; ; 700+ words ; Buster Keaton Tempest in a Flat Hat By...Press. $26.95. Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat is...the stage." By age 10, Buster was a major attraction of...original reporting beyond seeing Keaton's films and describing...
Buster Keaton or the work of comedy in the age of mechanical reproduction.
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...centennial of the birth of Buster Keaton, and it's no exaggeration to claim that Keaton is one of the definitions...equaled MGM, the nut equaled Buster Keaton." A great deal...system. A careful viewing of Keaton's films, however, reveals...
The Balloon of Equilibrium: Symmetry, Structures, and Narrative Authority in Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; I. Buster Ludens Like God, Buster Keaton, in the films that were...escapism" (114). But Keaton's ending goes against...Kramer notes only that the Keaton character is dressed...take into account that Buster and his wife and child...
A BUSTER KEATON GEM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/4/1988; ; 700+ words ; Buster Keaton was always an outsider. While Charlie...The baby in the prologue is played by Buster Keaton Jr., and Keaton's father, Joe...rediscovered after his death in 1966. But Buster Keaton wouldn't want our sympathy. Just our...
KEATON BIO CRACKS STONE-FACED FACADE\BUSTER KEATON: CUT TO THE CHASE.\BY MARION MEADE.\HARPERCOLLINS. 440 PAGES. $30.(ENTERTAINMENT/WEEKEND/SPOTLIGHT)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 2/7/1996; 641 words ; ...BLOWEN There are hundreds of hours of Buster Keaton on celluloid. From his classic silent...movie How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, Keaton's film persona was always stone...author Marion Meade contends that Keaton's sour expression began long before...