This Day in Buster…October 25, 1925 "Go West” premieres in New York. Buster Keaton is Friendless, with the pretty-faced Jersey dairy cow, Brown Eyes, as his loyal companion.
Movie Monday - “The Boat,” 1921, is the sequel to 1920’s “One Week.” As such it’s one of the few movies where Buster Keaton’s goal isn’t to get the girl, because he already got her!
This Day in Buster…October 13, 1930 The Evening Standard gives a review on "Doughboys is as clean, clever and comic a film as the talkies have ever given us."
This Day in Buster…October 12, 1939 The Indianapolis News prints a review of “Hollywood Cavalcade” - “While filming a scene Buster Keaton accidentally throws a custard pie which hits…(Alice) Faye squarely in the face.”
This Day In Buster…October 14, 1932 “Sidewalks of New York,” with the title “Gadens Drenge,” opens in Denmark. Meaning “Boys of the Street.”
Talkie/TV Tuesday - Bartine Burkett, leading lady in The High Sign, on The Johnny Carson Show, tells a story of how Buster Keaton taught her how to drive.
This Day in Buster…October 17, 1930 “Estrellados,” the Spanish Language version of "Free and Easy,” opens in Barcelona, Spain.
This Day in Buster… October 18, 1920 “The Saphead” is released. Metro Pictures took a gamble in hiring Buster Keaton — until then known only as a two-reeler comedian — to play Bertie Van Alstyne, but he came with a glowing recommendation from Douglas Fair
This Day in Buster…October 19, 1931 "Casanova wider Willen", the German language version of "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" is released by MGM. Buster Keaton learned the German script phonetically which he preferred to dubbed film - here he’s with Paul Morgan
This Day in Buster...October 20, 1923 The Jersey Journal mentions that "Buster Keaton was in New York for the World Series and confesses that he possibly could not say anything interesting but offered to do falls and neck spins for his radio listeners."
Movie Monday - Buster Keaton parodies the melodramatic offerings of William S. Hart, but he’s as cold as ice — “The Frozen North,” 1922,
TV Tuesday - Another clip of leading lady, Bartine Burkett on the Johnny Carson show talking about Buster Keaton.
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This Day in Buster…September 29, 1944 "San Diego, I Love You" is released. Buster Keaton plays a disgruntled bus driver who, with the persuasion of Louise Albritton, ends up mellowing after driving along the beach.
Movie Monday - “Go West,” 1925, is the love story of a boy and his cow. Friendless removes a stone from the hoof of Brown Eyes, and she in turn saves his life from an angry bull.
This Day in Buster…September 30, 1917 "Oh Doctor!" is released. Buster Keaton plays an over-emotional mother’s boy with an equally overbearing father, Roscoe Arbuckle.
TV Tuesday - Buster Keaton on the Faye Emerson Show, singing The Letters of Charlie Brooks and Nellie Adair, with costume changes, much to Faye Emersons amusement.
This Day in Buster…October 1, 1922 "The Electric House" was released 103 years ago today! Hats off the young graduate who upgrades his Botany degree to an Engineering degree with not a single moment of study!
This Day In Buster…October 2, 1965 "The Railrodder" is released. The late Gerald Potterton was the director of this short commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada but as the documentary “Buster Keaton Rides Again” shows, it was a collaborative ef
This Day in Buster…October 3, 1926 The Selma Times-Journal reports on boxing scenes in “Battling Butler” filmed in LA’s Olympic Auditorium. Cast, crew & extras were part of the audience but in order to fill the venue, they allowed in all-comers to wit
This Day in Buster…October 4, 1895 Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton was born in Piqua, Kansas to parents Joe & Myra Keaton. Today we get to celebrate a very special 130th birthday with a video of Buster singing, "June Night."
This Day in Buster…October 6, 1921 Buster Keaton's "The Playhouse" is released. The over-arching theme of multiplicity is one that returns many times over his career but is most impressive in the opening sequence of this short.
