Oral history interview with Joseph Francis (Buster) Keaton, 1958

Biographical Note

Comedian

Scope and Contents

Family background in medicine shows; childhood experiences in vaudeville; beginning in pictures with Fatty Arbuckle; the Keaton Studios, 1922-28: "Hard Luck," "The Navigator," "Sherlock, Jr."; working for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, advent of sound; comedy and comedians. Audio is comprised of the interview and the narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Comedians--Interviews.
• Comedy.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966--Interviews.
• Motion picture actors and actresses--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Silent films.
• Vaudeville--United States.