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Weird advertising campaign for Buster Keaton’s Cops (1922) in which the reader is invited to make a little Buster flip-book, which would look something like the above gif. Do not try to read it. You will become very ill.

From Film Fun magazine, April 1922.

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The Buster Keaton museum in Piqua, Kansas.

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Buster Keaton by Melbourne Spurr, c. 1925.

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Here is a bunch of MGM stars at some weird kid dress up party. Notice that Buster’s got something on his pants and Joan Crawford has an impish grin on her face. I don’t know, but they have a guilty look on their faces. Perhaps they had a little romp in the pantry right before the picture. lol

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Happy Birthday Mary Pickford ♡ (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979)

Mary Pickford is a fairy! She is not of this world. She just happened down here to help rub a little of the soot off of everybody’s viewpoint and whisper to us of a place whereperchance butter and eggs are within reason, where folks never have toothaches, and where they tell legends about divorce courts…There is yet to be found a woman who is jealous of Mary Pickford…We love her curls, we love her sunshine, we love her self-forgetful little ways; and most of all we love Mary Pickford because she loves us…Mary Pickford, sweetheart, is the sweetheart of America…Now and then one hears of some one who does not like Mary Pickford, but that person is like a highbrow and is generally a full-fledged fan’s idea of the type of individual who would steal, plague the cat, and gossip about the dead.

— Clara Louise Leslie in the May 1918 issue of “Motion Picture”

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This photo appeared with the following article on page 171 of “Who’s Who on the Screen” published, New York, 1920.

“Joseph Francis, better known as “Buster” Keaton, will be remembered by vaudeville enthusiasts as the third member of the Three Keatons. For years his father coached him until he became a marvel, even as a youngster, in the rough and tumble act the family presented. In 1917 Roscoe Arbuckle gave young Keaton his chance for a screen career and he made good at once. He has since appeared as Bertie, “the lamb” in the Metro picturization of Winchell Smith’s and Victor Mapes’ play “The New Henrietta” which Metro produced under the name of “The Saphead.” Buster is to follow this high comedy characterization with a series of two reel comedies known as the “Buster Keaton Comedies” and which Metro will distribute. He is five feet four inches high and weighs a hundred and thirty-nine pounds.”

Just as I suspected, not 5’ 6”.

He is achingly beautiful in this picture.

Why does he have to be achingly beautiful?