Inaugural meeting of the Independent Screen Artists’ Guild, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, December, 1921. Seated in the front row are William Selig (far left), Buster Keaton, Thomas Ince (holding Jackie Coogan) and Charlie. Footage from this formal dinner can be seen in the film Seeing Stars (1922) which shows Buster acting as a waiter and attending to Charlie and Jackie.
Charlie and Buster Keaton were neighbors in 1930 and are listed consecutively on the 1930 census. Buster lived at 1004 N. Hartford; Charlie at 1103 Cove Way (later known as 1085 Summit Drive due to reassignment). The census gives the following info about Charlie: age: 41, marital status: divorced, occupation: actor. The other household members listed with Chaplin are his Japanese servants. Buster shared his home with his wife, Natalie Talmadge, their 2 sons, plus 4 servants.
Source: www.ancestry.com
I like it when I find pictures of Buster and Charlie together.
This is from a larger photo taken at a dinner party for Rudolph Valentino in 1925.
A funny story about Charlie from Buster’s memoir. Charlie finally did get a TV in Switzerland. He enjoyed watching news programs, even though they were in French and he couldn’t understand what they were saying.
The second time I took Charlie unawares was on the day in 1951 when he sent for me to discuss doing a scene with him for Limelight, the last picture he made in this country.
He seemed astonished at my appearance. Apparently he had expected to see me a physical and mental wreck. But I was in fine…
Buster and Charlie clowning around…
If you live in the Bay Area, head over to the Niles Silent Film Museum this weekend for “Comedy Shorts Night” which will feature Chaplin’s Behind The Screen, along with Buster Keaton in The Haunted House, Laurel & Hardy in Liberty & Charley Chase in Forgotten Sweeties.
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— Buster Keaton, “My Friend Charlie Chaplin”, 1952 (reprinted in The Legend of Charlie Chaplin by Peter Haining)
Limelight will be airing tonight at 1:30 AM (EST) on TCM as part of their month-long tribute to Buster Keaton.
Buster Keaton trying on costumes for Limelight, c. 1951-1952.
Happy Birthday, Buster!
Portrait of Buster Keaton’s character in Limelight (1952).
Don’t miss Sundays with Buster Keaton on TCM this month. 51 feature films and shorts will be shown. It will be all Buster, every Sunday evening in October.
This fight is “silent…but very deadly!”
(via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvYbb9SE8LY&feature=share)
I’m not sure if many of you remember MTV’s “CELEBRITY DEATH MATCH”…it was on from 1998 to 2002, here is an episode between Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, unfortunately for me Charlie Chaplin got his butt kicked.
By request : some photos of Charlie and Buster.
From the film Seeing Stars (1922)—that’s Jackie Coogan next to Charlie.
(Source: maudit)
A dinner party held by Joseph Schenck to welcome Rudolph Valentino into United Artists, 1925.
Clockwise from left: Natalie Talmadge, William S. Hart, Norma Talmadge, Hiram Abrams, Douglas Fairbanks, Peg Talmadge, Allan Forrest, James Hood MacFarland, Buster Keaton, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Charlotte Pickford (Mary’s mother), Joe Schenck, Natacha Rambova, Sydney Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Constance Talmadge, John Considine, Lottie Pickford, and Arthur Kelly.
Out-of-the-ordinary photos of Charlie Chaplin and other interesting tidbits.
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