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Baby Buster

#buster keaton #baby Buster #early 1900s #vaudeville

Buster’s handwriting and doodles

#buster keaton #my edit #silent movies #vaudeville #Muskegon #hand writing #doodlies

There's a guy on letterboxd who left reviews for the French versions of Parlor, Bedroom and Bath and The Passionate Plumber even though they’re supposed to be lost. I really wonder if there are copies available somewhere.

Maybe the guy’s the just lying but I want to know 😩

What is going on?! Are they lying? Why would they?! I need answers!!!

#buster keaton #Buster se Marie #Parlor Becroon and Bath #1930s #comedy #golden age of hollywood #pre code hollywood

Buster Dancing as a Pretty Lady

Music:- It's All Coming Back to Me Now by Celine Dion

#buster keaton #celine dion #comedy #silent movies #1920s #1930s #my edit #golden age of hollywood #hollywood #roscoe arbuckle #cliff edwards

I Think I’m Gonna Die In This House

Music:- House by Charli XCX Featuring John Cale

#buster keaton #charli xcx #john cale #house #i think i’m gonna die in this house #my edit #comedy #silent movies #1920s #silent film #silent comedy #1920s cinema #golden age of hollywood #hollywood #slapstick

Just an edit I made of Buster being Buster

#buster keaton #comedy #silent movies #1920s #silent film #golden age of hollywood #hollywood #my edit #laura palmer #twin peaks

robertdeanstockwellgal

Teenage Buster Keaton with friend Keith Krueger and siblings Jingles and Louise. Posing at Lake Michigan Park, probably 1909-1910.

danyuchou

#😍😭🥹

#buster keaton #natalie talmadge #1920s #christmas #vintage hollywood #golden age of hollywood

sueloeffler

I'm getting closer to completing my first marionette! Buster is my favorite actor and my favorite film as a child was Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Revisiting it, I realized my favorite marionette in the film was actually Buster!

#what???#I guess I’m gonna watch this film now

Music:- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk

#buster keaton #daft punk #harder better faster stronger #comedy #silent movies #1920s #my edit #silent film #silent comedy #1920s cinema #golden age of hollywood #hollywood #slapstick

grandoldmovies

King of the Elysian Fields

Between the years of 1933 and 1935, Buster Keaton lost it all. He lost his marriage (his first wife divorced him and took away his sons), his sobriety (he was by then a confirmed alcoholic), and his career (MGM, whose star roster he was on, fired him). Although Keaton was able to pull his life back together, he afterwards made do with what basically was gig work: Supporting roles in feature films, two-reel comedies at low-budget studios, gag writing at major studios, and spot jobs in theater, commercials, and TV. The work was steady, even a little lucrative, but...dare I say it...not a patch on his silent masterworks of the 1920s.

However, among this post-1933-1935 patchwork is an oddity—a 1934 film Buster made in France, titled Le Roi des Champs-Élysées. The film itself is a bit of a patchwork—its original producers lost funding, with a new company taking over; and its original, inexperienced director had to be replaced. The film was also in French (Buster's few lines of dialogue were dubbed); and Buster plays two roles—a naive aspiring actor and a ruthless gang boss. The former is mistaken for the latter, and from such situation the comedy springs.

No one would call Le Roi des Champs-Élysées a masterpiece (Keaton doesn't even name the film in his autobiography), and, compared to Keaton's 1920s films, it's minor in scale. But it was a starring role for Keaton (his last one, as it turned out), and it gives him the chance to act two separate characters, distinguishing between them with that still-amazing, still-accomplished body of his. And the film is Keaton, front and center; he's its motor, its springboard, its reason for being. No small thing. Find out more at my Grand Old Movies post here. It's like a stroll down the Champs-Élysées itself.