This Day in Buster… March 10, 1930
"Spite Marriage,” with the title "Kalpean kreivin häät,” opens in Finland. Meaning “The Wedding of the Pale Count," with Buster Keaton and Dorothy Sebastian.
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TV Tuesday- Buster Keaton appears in season one, episode 32, "Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?" of Burke's Law. The once silent actor remains silent in the role of Mr. Lovely…almost.
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Movie Monday - Estrellados, the Spanish-language version of Free and Easy, was Buster Keaton's first Spanish picture. Buster spoke his lines phonetically and had the script written out on “idiot cards,” as he described it in his autobiography, “My Wonderful World of Slapstick.”
This Day in Buster… March 9, 1926
Los Angeles Evening Citizen News reports that Buster Keaton is off the diet that he had been on for three months during the filming of Battling Butler. "The entire company engaged in an eating bout, with Buster as host."
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This Day in Buster… March 8, 1931
Gerald Potterton—who, among other high-profile projects, directed & worked with Buster Keaton on “The Railrodder”—is born.
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#SaturdayCaptions Buster Keaton handles plenty of checks but seems to be more interested in checking out what Virginia Fox is checking in… Caption this promo pic for “The Haunted House."
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This Day in Buster… March 7, 1939
It is announced that Buster Keaton "is trying a comeback as a comic in a new deal with Columbia. Pact calls for a pair of two-reelers with options for additional shorts".
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Buster Keaton rated this "Hard Luck" impossible gag from his shorts as one of his best. As Buster recalls it, the water in the tank was covered with paraffin, over which was pasted a wallpaper that looked like solid brick flooring. Buster dived through the supposed bricks.
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This Day in Buster… March 6, 1956
Buster Keaton appears on The Martha Raye Show in an adapted version of the piano scene from 1952’s “Limelight,” with Raye in the Chaplin role.
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Throwback Thursday—A 1973 Japanese flyer for Buster Keaton's "Steamboat Bill Jr."
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This Day in Buster... March 5, 1921
The Edmonton Journal calls Buster Keaton's "One Week," "Two reels of side-splitting fun arising from the trials of honeymooners" and "the comedian has a role that fits him like a kid glove."
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WIP Wednesday - Promotional photos of Buster Keaton, Françoise Rosay, and André Luguet in "Buster se marie," the French version of "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath," 1931. Unfortunately, it is a lost film.
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This Day in Buster... March 4, 1929
The Republican prints this advertisement with a Buster Keaton promotional photo from "Spite Marriage" for Old Gold Cigarettes. "The world's funniest 'serious' comedian of the screen—who never smiles but makes all the world smile.
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TV Tuesday—Buster Keaton in an advertisement for a Ford Ecocline.
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This Day in Buster… March 3, 1921
The Independent mentions Buster Keaton co-starring with William H. Crane, saying, "Rescued from slapstick to give a joyous and realistic performance as the unsophisticated Lamb who sheared the Bears of Wall Street."
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This Day in Buster… March 2, 1923
The Waco Times-Herald dedicates a half-page to promoting the Grand Opening of 'The Balloonatic' at the Strand: “Buster gets up in the air over a swell Jane. You can understand better when we tell you it’s Phyllis Haver.”
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Movie Monday—Buster Keaton is on the run from the law from all sides; “Cops,” 1922, provides the best chase scenes in Buster’s short-film career.
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This Day in Buster… March 1, 1926
Buster Keaton's “Seven Chances,” with the title "Siete ocasiones,” opens in Spain.
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Saturday Captions—Caption this slippery situation with Buster Keaton, Cliff Edwards, and Joan Peers. A promo photo for Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
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This Day in Buster… February 28, 1931
Buster Keaton's “Parlor, Bedroom & Bath” opens in the U.S.
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Promotional photos of Buster Keaton and Charlotte Greenwood in "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" from 1931.
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This Day in Buster… February 27, 1931
Michigan newspaper, the Lansing State Journal, opines on “Parlor, Bedroom & Bath”: A scene that will go down in history is the one in which Charlotte Greenwood undertakes to teach Buster how to make love.
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Throwback Thursday—Buster Keaton on the cover of the French magazine Le Film Complet du Jeudi for "Les Fiancées en Folie" (Seven Chances), 1926.
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This Day in Buster... February 26, 1926
The Truth reviews "Go West," saying, "Facing the perplexing situation of being ordered to 'Smile!' while doing so, you may be able to imagine some of the cleverness and humor contained in the funeral-faced funster's most recent frolic."
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This Day in Buster... February 25, 1919
The Baker City Herald gives a review for "The Bell Boy," with Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, and Alice Lake, saying, "The action is rapid, the fun spirited, and the entire picture is calculated to dispel gloom of the most rock-ribbed variety."
WIP Wednesday - Behind-the-scenes photo of Buster Keaton & Roscoe Arbuckle on the set of ‘The Bell Boy’ (1918)
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