Posts tagged Buster Keaton.

Movies Watched in 2012

6. The Haunted House (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton, 1921)

For those of you who have access to TCM tonight, there’s a lovely marathon going on that you should all definitely be looking forward to! It’s a night of one of the most handsome and hilarious men of the silent era: Buster Keaton! This is the schedule for tonight - in eastern time - so make sure you check at what time it begins in your area. Over ten hours of Keaton sounds like a perfect night in my book, so either set those DVRs up or get ready for a really late night.

This still depicts a sequence that does not appear in Sherlock Jr.; it was either abandoned or cut from the film prior to release. The preoccupied ticket-office girl remains unidentified. However, she does appear elsewhere in the film as the girl who work the service counter of the confectionery shop. 

Buster Keaton at his Beverly Hills mansion, the Italian Villa, in November 1929. He once said, “It took a hell of  lot of pratfalls to build that dump.”

Buster Keaton kneels to tie his shoe and ends up engaged to Sybil Seely in The Scarecrow (1920).

Buster Keaton with Sybil Seely, c. 1920.

Natalie Talmadge clutches a rolling pin, and Buster Keaton’s broken right ankle (which is still bandaged from his accident making the abandoned first version of The Electric House) is shackled by a ball and chain in this gag photograph taken shortly after their marriage.

Buster Keaton and crew on The High Sign signal for the still photographer aboard a boat on location off the coast of Venice Beach, California. Eddie Cline is in the wide-brimmed hat on the left with cameraman Elgin Lessley seated immediately behind him.