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 Buster Keaton Quotes
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 Joseph Frank Keaton VI ( 4 October 1895 – 1 February 1966 ) American actor and filmmaker, often called The Great Stone Face , he was the first person ever called " Buster ", acquiring the nickname from Harry Houdini who saw him take a fall down some... 
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Buster Keaton | | Variant Name: |
Jospeh Frank Keaton | | Birth Date: |
October 4, 1895 | | Death Date: |
February 1, 1966 | | Place of Birth: |
Piqua, Kansas, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
Woodland Hills, California, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
actor, director, producer, screenwriter |
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 Biography of Buster Keaton
1,836 words, approx. 6 pages
 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 films in the 1920s and 1930s. An innovator behind the...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Keaton, Buster (1895-1966) Summary
1,043 words, approx. 4 pagesWith 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 during his fifty-year film career. At the height of his popularity, he played... summary from source:
 Comedy Kings Summary
4,009 words, approx. 13 pagesComedy Kings Charlie Chaplin Born April 16, 1889 (London, England) Died December 25, 1977 (Vevey, Switzerland) Buster Keaton Born April 4, 1895 (Piqua, Kansas) Died February 1, 1966 (Woodland Hills, California) Harold Lloyd Born April 20, 1893... summary from source:
 Buster Keaton Information
4,002 words, approx. 13 pages
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great...
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 The Boston Globe A Buster Keaton Gem
03/04/1988: 650 words, approx. 2 pages Buster Keaton was always an outsider. While Charlie Chaplin went for the quick laugh or the easy tear, Keaton never asked for sympathy and disdained the quick gag. While Chaplin would attract attention by gnawing on an old shoe in "The Gold Rush,"... summary from source:
The Washington Post Buster Keaton, Seriously Funny
10/22/1995: 2,009 words, approx. 7 pages Next to Garbo, Buster Keaton possessed the most exquisite face in the history of the movies. White as alabaster, with dark, shy, feline eyes and high, finely sculpted cheekbones, it was capable of a vast range of expression, from the open inquisitiveness of a... summary from source:
 AP News Obituaries in the news
9/24/2007: 276 words, approx. 1 pagesMarcel MarceauPARIS (AP) _ Marcel Marceau, the master of mime who transformed silence into poetry with lithe gestures and pliant facial expressions that spoke to generations of young and old, died Saturday. He was 84.Marceau's former assistant Emmanuel Vacca said on French radio that the... summary from source:
AP News Today in history - April 12
4/11/2007: 667 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Thursday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2007. There are 263 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.On this date:In 1606, England's King James...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Garrett Stewart
2,690 words, approx. 9 pages
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 happened also to coincide with the crisis of mimesis in other narrative forms, the growing doubt about story's responsibility toward that "real" world which cinema had so recently learned to simulate and resee. The art of duplication had turned dubious. In the process it had also turned in on itself to discover why. Perhaps the mo... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
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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 extraordinary family (wife and children behave like extensions of Keaton himself) would next be found setting up some ultra-ingenious desert island shack. The survival power of the Keaton character is never seriously in question. But the element of melancholy … still bites. Keaton's humour is seldom destructive except at his own expens... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
461 words, approx. 2 pages
Keaton has never been forgotten, but he has been comparatively neglected. That comparison is, obviously, with Chaplin. Now some points seem clear. As performer, Keaton is certainly Chaplin's equal. As director, he is Chaplin's superior, more flexible in his camera movement, more sensitive to pictorial quality as such. As producer of whole, organic works, he is not quite as good as Chaplin. As manager of his career, he is not remotely in Chaplin's league. Chaplin had great business and p...
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