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Buster Keaton - the Persistence of Comedy (Paperback)
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Buster Keaton - the Persistence of Comedy (Paperback)
Series: Distinctive Actors
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Buster Keaton is remembered today as one of the most innovative and
hilarious comedians of the silent movie era, considered now to be
the equal to Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd. Starting his career
as a child in vaudeville with his parents in a violent, knockabout
comedy act known as The Three Keatons, Buster - so called because
he could take a fall without getting hurt - was a seasoned stage
professional by the time of his film debut with Roscoe "Fatty"
Arbuckle in 1917 at only 21 years old. Keaton's soaring success in
motion pictures lasted 15 years until a devastating crash brought
on by personal troubles, alcoholism and the advent of sound
pictures. By 1932, Buster had become nearly unemployable. The true
story of how he bounced back to become an icon in film history is
the beautifully written and thoroughly researched tale lovingly
crafted in Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy by film analyst
and writer, Imogen Sara Smith.
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