Welcome!

Welcome to my blog.

To whom it may concern:

First off, I will write a disclaimer. I may occasionally get a detail wrong, or miss a detail in my rambling. Please excuse this, as I am human.

Second, this blog will probably be a bit biased toward Buster Keaton, so, If I ever get on the topic of His first wife, please understand that I do not like her, and sometimes act harshly against her, but she wasn't a bad person.


Whew. Now that that's out of the way, Hello fellow Buster-Keaton-ers! If you're new to him, then you've just barely stepped into one of the greatest discoveries of your life. Buster Keaton was one of the most important men in history!

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Okay, I guess that's exaggerating a bit.

But, being serious now, Buster Keaton was an extremely influential man in the world of cinema. Who knows where the world of film would be now if he hadn't lived?

To those new to him and his work, let me explain. Buster Keaton was a silent film comedian. He originally worked on the stage in vaudeville between the ages of three and twenty-one. He began making independent films in the year 1917 and continued steadily until 1928. Then he "made the worst mistake of his life" and signed a contract with the production studio, MGM. From there, his career took a dive, as he was no longer afforded the creative freedom he was used to working with. He was fired in 1934, shortly after a brutal divorce with his second wife, and he descended into alcoholism. For a long while, he made no more films, working as a gag writer for other comedians.  Then one day he met a wonderful young lady named Eleanor Morris. They have married soon afterward. (Many credit her with bringing him stability.) A while later, he was asked to write a gag: an appropriate way to smash a violin. He designed a complex, yet believable way and the directors loved it. The only problem was, Buster was the only one who could do it. So they wrote in a small part in the movie for him.
When the movie premiered, people suddenly took notice of him again. ("Is that Buster Keaton?" "I haven't seen him in a film for years!") Suddenly, he was receiving offers to be in films and on TV shows, and in commercials. the public became more acquainted with him again. he enjoyed a rise in fame in the years before his death and there was an increased effort to locate surviving copies of his silent films. In the end, he had regained most of his fame and been able to buy a small 'ranch', where he kept chickens and grew vegetables. he never was quite what he had been in the silent era, but he was happy.

I will be writing about particular events in his life, people he knew, or anything, really, that had anything at all to do with him. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

Now, come with me, into the fantastic world of Buster Keaton...