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Keaton, Buster (1895-1966)
With the possible exception of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton stands as the greatest comedian of the silent movie era. Keaton
appeared in well over 100 shorts and features d...
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Comedy Kings
Charlie ChaplinBorn April 16, 1889 (London, England)Died December 25, 1977 (Vevey, Switzerland)
Buster KeatonBorn April 4, 1895 (Piqua, Kansas)Died February 1, 1966 (Woodland Hills, Calif...
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Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was one of the best known and most respected of the silent film comedians. Dubbed "The Great Stone Face" for his stoic demeanor, he wrote, directed and produced many of his f...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Gilliatt
Keaton's character in "Sherlock Jr." is very much Buster's. Sherlock is cultivated, well dressed, virtuous, and fortunate. He is the for...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
One of Buster Keaton's inimitable images is worth a thousand words of explicatory prose…. This kind of hyperbolic heraldry gets me into trouble with peopl...
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Critical Essay by Garrett Stewart
Buster Keaton wrote, starred in, and directed movies when the movies were still in awe of themselves and their very gift for movement. Keaton's kinesis happene...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Bishop
Where the goals in Chaplin's films are social, physical, and explicit, those in Keaton's are metaphysical and implicit. Chaplin's art is roote...
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Critical Essay by Paul Rotha
Keaton at his best as in The General, College, and the first two reels of Spite Marriage, has real merit. His humour is dry, exceptionally well constructed and almost enti...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
The Boat has all the resilience, pig-headedness, and strangeness of the best Keaton films. It ends perfectly; but if it were to go on one has no doubt that this extr...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Keaton has never been forgotten, but he has been comparatively neglected. That comparison is, obviously, with Chaplin. Now some points seem clear. As performer, Kea...
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