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Saturday Captions - Caption this behind-the-scenes moment from 1928’s, ‘The Cameraman.'

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Buster Keaton and Jack Oakie at a charity baseball game between MGM (Keaton) and Paramount (Oakie) that raised money for the 1932 LA Summer Olympic Games. They're with the trophy for the fastest baserunner.

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This Day in Buster… June 12, 1926

“The Eugene Guard,” waxes lyrical on just how patient and kind Buster Keaton and his company were, and how surprisingly few in number. The permanent staff comprised just 15, several of whom were also in the cast. The rest were sourced locally in Cottage Grove, but what isn’t surprising is how Buster Keaton is still much beloved in that little town.

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Throwback Thursday: Look at these treats from the Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Presentation book, 1924, released in Australia.

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WIPWednesday: Buster Keaton ‘laughs for the first time’ according to this photo with German actor Paul Morgan taken whilst filming, ‘Wir Schalten Um Auf Hollywood,' 1931

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This Day in Buster… June 9, 1928 The LA Evening Post Record gives the following quote from John Barrymore: “One of the finest motion picture actors that I can think of is Buster Keaton, who has the necessary and instinctive genius for his craft. And one of the elements of his great success lies in his having acquired the facial impassivity of a blackboard in a grammar school, on which he slenderly traces patterns that photograph like one of Meryon’s etchings. And that is pretty fine stuff in black and white.” (Both men are pictured on the set of 1937’s “Night Club Scandal” with Louise Campbell, Evelyn Brent, and director Ralph Murphy.)

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Sunday Sales—Fancy a bath with Buster Keaton? Scrub up with a bar of bay rum soap for discriminating gentlemen from ‘Cats in the Cradle'—good clean fun! [Here]

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Saturday Captions: Buster Keaton & Mary McLeod take their dancing seriously; Gloria Marlen, less so. Jack Oakie seems unimpressed. Caption this behind-the-scenes moment from “That’s the Spirit."