Happy Happy 125th Birthday Buster Keaton! You gave such joy and still do over 50 years after your death. You comedy never gets old. It is has fresh now as it was all those years ago. Thank You Buster for all those films you left behind.
saw dankula’s buster keaton vid months ago and this one is shorter but significantly better and more descriptive of the man’s actual life. fantastic vid. thanks.
Nice documentary and sensitively put together, just a couple of points though, it was never a fact that Houdini actually nicknamed Joseph 'Buster' after a tumble down the stairs, even though Buster later said that he did, maybe to keep the mystique. Also he was never ordinary. This guy served sandwiches in a working train set, made chow mein for tea parties with animals who he adored, and made the first Segway amongst many other things. He was extraordinary. He was also an incredibly striking man in his youth.
also he didn't break his neck when he was in his family's traveling show, he broke it on the set of sherlock jr, where he was slammed onto railroad tracks by high water pressure and didnt know until later in his life.
Buster Keaton did not break his neck falling into the audience when he was a child! No one has ever said that! He broke his neck in one of his feature films "Sherlock Jr." The scene where he opens up the water tower next to the train tracks when he is hanging from the spout about 15 feet high. When the water comes out of the spout it hits him on the top of the head and pushes him all the way down to the ground. The 15 foot drop on his ass, plus the gallons upon gallons of water rushing strait down on his head smashed his scull down on his spine and caused a break. The crazy thing is, you can see that happen in the movie. It is true that he did not learn of his broken neck for years.
The Doctors found an earlier break (healed reasonably well) while looking at the second break, (also healed reasonably well) so that may be the break that Brit is referring to.
He did not break his neck while he was young child --- it happened during a stunt for Sherlock Jr. that involved high pressure water pouring on to him.
The last twenty six years of his life - after marrying Eleanor - were very happy years. He recovered from his dark depressive period, with her help, into prominence and usually had more work offers - mostly television - than he could cope with. He died knowing his very early works that he thought had been forgotten were appreciated, critically acclaimed and he was considered by many as a genius. He famously stated 'No man can be a genius in slap shoes and a flat hat'. The end of his life is only tragic because the world lost a wonderfully talented, kind and humble man.
Dame Mae Fishman, a rising star in the silent film era, was a force to be reckoned with. Born at the turn of the 20th century, she was one of the earliest female figures to dominate the silver screen. Her talent caught the eye of Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, who became her close friends. They spent countless hours together, sharing laughs and refining their craft. Her performances were so compelling that she was honored in both Germany and the United States. She even earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Despite the hurdles, Dame Mae Fishman refused to fade into oblivion. She pushed through, making her last film in 1939 before retiring from the big screen. Unfortunately, only seven of her silent films have survived the test of time. But those that remain serve as a reminder of her exceptional talent.
He's a product of so much suffering. A kind of hero, brilliant, and he made a wonderful creative career and life. Thanks to BK and thanks for this video!
Lol a lot of this information is not right. His parents never lied about him being a dwarf, it was rumored by other people who would watch his plays. And he never broke his neck as a kid, it was actually during one of his movies in the 1920's so idk if this guy decided to read Buster's Wikipedia out loud or something but this shit is wrong.
Yea, let´s wreck train into the river, let´s kick kids into the audience - what a funkcioning society. Regulations are helping to weakest people in society and also to the nature. If we kept doing things like in 20s,30s we would by this time suffered at least two wars for drinkable water.
His autobiography My Wonderful World of Slapstick and other biographies consistently quote BK refuting claims he was abused. He learned how to not get hurt, and said he loved his work with his family on stage.
i would only grant buster keaton the title of best silent film actor if you exclude charlie chaplin for his speaking appearances. buster keaton was the more impressive stuntman/daredevil tho
No. He had a most wonderful life, a life he he never thought he would have. He did have a bad and dark battle with alcohol due to his loss of independence as an independent film maker when he lost his studio and at the same time, matrimonial issues, bad scripts and subsequential demeaning film roles. He lost everything, including his two sons, in an acrimonial divorce, all he was allowed to keep from his vast fortune was his car He regained his rightful place in history as a talented, director, actor and pioneer of the film industry, worldwide, was appreciated, and he thankfully just lived long enough to know it. All said, he lived a wonderful life during the best of American history - the roaring 20s - he had America by the tail, try to find his autobiography it's very interesting! :)
0:23 "Como dis... Como que si te enseñan un bebe y dices "esta bonito", este, obvia... Y en tu mente no piensas eso es que no estas siendo sincero, pero si lo dices que "esta bien culero", se oye feo"
I don't know if I want to watch any of his work truth be told. His upbringing and life story just make me sad. Abused as a child, conditioned to basically only crave the attention of others while being on a stage or set, losing his wife and children, becoming an alcoholic, ending up in a mental hospital and then finally dying from lung cancer after an extremely drawn out period of being broken by stagnating career. I'll give him deserved credit for being so stoic about it all. But what he was going through basically showcase everything that's wrong with "show business" in my view, and I wouldn't like the fact that someone is sitting here today, earning money from this mans misery.
@Mel Bee It does for me. Someone is making money off his legacy. And I don't want to contribute to profiteering off abused children. If the person or company owning the rights to the films donated all proceeds to shelters that help abused children, it might be a different story.
@@sevenproxies4255 you are making the assumption that Buster has abused children in his films when he does not. Nor was he a child in any of his films.
chuckthetrashmanjr I do actually and i still know he didn’t, because you’re too thick to know the difference if you were in the medic profession you’d know and obviously you don’t
Very nice but you got some of your facts wrong he did not break his neck being thrown into an audience he broke his neck off a water tower while he was in film but nice job though