Buster Keaton’s Pie Throwing
The art of making and throwing them as told by Buster Keaton.
Ironically, even though most people associate pie throwing with silent film comedies, Buster Keaton never took a pie in the face in any of his silent films - and he only threw a pie once (at Fatty Arbuckle in The Garage) [...]
This is a direct transcript from a section devoted to Buster Keaton in a 1949 article in Life Magazine by James Agee. It was written while Keaton was still alive and before the rediscovery of the majority of his films.
Comedies Greatest Era, By James Agee - originally published in Life Magazine September 5th 1949
The Great [...]
Wife Forgives Buster Keaton After he “Kidnaps” Two Sons, By Janet Burden - originally published in Movie Classic, June 1932
Natalie Talmadge Keaton has police stop comedian, after he takes youngsters on forbidden plane trip - Buster kids away separation, but claims he is still boss.
Buster kidded divorce rumors by having pictures taken of himself and [...]
Buster Keaton’s Entry in the 1923/24 Blue Book
[Please note the misprint in the list of Keaton's released films. "The Ghost" should read "The Goat"! There is also a discrepancy here and between Keaton's telling of the Pickway hurrican incident.]
Young as he is, Buster Keaton has seen much of the face of the earth. He began [...]
Buster Keaton Can Smile After Business Hours, by Dorothy Day - originally published in the New York Telegraph on October 21, 1923
I went to interview Buster Keaton with one ambition in mind–I would make him smile just to see if he could. He can. He favored me with a broad grin, upon our introduction. Maybe [...]
Low Comedy as a High Art, by Malcolm H. Oettinger - originally published in Picture-Play Magazine, March 1923
For a long time it was considered a breach of critical etiquette, if there be such a thing, to write of any one engaged in such a lowly sphere as that of comedy. It was little short of [...]
Buster Keaton Can Smile and Yawn, Too, If He Wishes, by Gertrude Chase - originally published in the New York Telegraph on October 8, 1922
A small dark man stepped from the elevator at the Hotel Ambassador looking as solemn as an owl, which is the old-fashioned way of saying as solemn as Buster Keaton, for [...]
Buster Keaton’s Marriage — Only Three Weeks - by Wilis Goldbeck, originally published in Motion Picture, October 1921
“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.” I sat once in a famous theater in the London Haymarket, and heard that proverb drip from the oily tongue of an aged Chinese philosopher. It glittered for the moment [...]
Tumbling to Fame, by Malcolm H. Oettinger — originally published in Picture-Play Magazine, December 1920
If you’re a “big-time” vaudeville devotee you’ll remember “The Three Keatons.” You may not remember the name, but, if you ever saw them, you couldn’t forget the big comedy Irishman who used to pick up his five-year-old son by the back [...]
Buster Keaton Bursts Into Stardom, by Grace Kingsley — originally published in the Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1920
“I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go ’round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes–wear everything but a corset! Can’t stub my toe [...]