Buster Keaton: the Persistence of Comedy
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Buster Keaton is remembered today as one of the most innovative and hilarious comedians of the silent movie era, considered now to be the equal of Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd. Starting his career as a child in vaudeville with his parents in a violent, knockabout comedy act known as The Three Keatons, Buster-so called because he could take a fall without getting hurt-was a seasoned stage professional by the time of his film debut with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in 1917 at only 21 years old...






















