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The Buster Keaton Story is a 1957 American biographical drama film directed by Sidney Sheldon and written by Sidney Sheldon and Robert Smith, following the life of Buster Keaton. The film stars Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Larry Keating and Jackie Coogan. It was released on April 21, 1957, by Paramount Pictures.
The Buster Keaton Story: Directed by Sidney Sheldon. With Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre. An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
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- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Sidney Sheldon
- 1957-05
The fictional Keaton film The Criminal depicted in The Buster Keaton Story was a reworking of the comedian's 1922 short film Cops, including gags from his 1924 feature film Sherlock, Jr. (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30).
- Sidney Sheldon, Francisco Day
- Donald O'connor
- Who Was Buster Keaton?
- Early Years
- The Filmmaker
- Career Undone
- Career Rebound
- Death
Born to vaudeville performers, Buster Keaton began performing at age 3. He was introduced to film when he was 21 and eventually directed and starred in films in the 1920s. The talkies eventually pushed him out of demand, but he made a comeback in the 1940s and '50s when he starred as himself in films such as Sunset Boulevard.
Joseph Frank Keaton IV was born October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas. His parents, Joe and Myra, were both veteran vaudevillian actors, and Keaton himself first began performing at the age of 3 when he was incorporated into their act. As legend has it, he earned the name of "Buster" when he was 18 months old, after falling down a flight of stairs. Mag...
Even in his first film, a 1917 two-reeler called The Butcher Boystarring Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, Keaton was extreme slapstick, with the young actor being subjected to a range of abuses, from being submerged in molasses to getting bit by a dog. Still, film called to Keaton, and for the next two years, he continued to work closely with Arbuckle fo...
In 1928 Keaton made the move that he would later call the mistake of his life. With the advent of talkies, Keaton signed on with MGM, where he proceeded to make a string of new sound comedies that fared decently at the box office but lacked the kind of Keaton punch the filmmaker had come to expect from his work. The reason for that largely stemmed ...
In 1940 Keaton's life began to make a turn for the better. He was married for a third time, to a 21-year-old dancer named Eleanor Morris, who many credited with bringing him stability. The two would remain together until Keaton's death in 1966. A return to fame came in the 1950s, a revival that was sparked by British television, where the aging com...
On February 1, 1966, Keaton died in his sleep from complications of lung cancer at his home in Woodland Hills, California. He is buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
The Buster Keaton Story is a 1957 American biographical drama film directed by Sidney Sheldon and written by Sidney Sheldon and Robert Smith, following the life of Buster Keaton. The film stars Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Larry Keating and Jackie Coogan. It was released on April 21, 1957, by Paramount Pictures. The film was described by AllMovie as "sublimely ...
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The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster Keaton, played by Donald O'Connor. The film begins with young Buster appearing in his parents' circus acrobatic act (the real Keatons never appeared in a circus, but were vaudevillians instead).
The movie isn't. MovieDude-4 30 September 2003. Donald O'Connor does an amazing job recreating Buster Keaton's style and routines in this otherwise dreadful script, credited to Sidney Sheldon and Robert Smith. Buster was arguably a finer comedian than Chaplin, but fell into alcoholism for a number of reasons.
