MGM Stories Part 3: Buster Keaton's Biggest Mistake
- Podcast Episode
- 2015
- 47m
In 1928, silent comedy star Buster Keaton made what he would later call "the worst mistake of my career": against the advice of fellow silent comedy auteurs like Charlie Chaplin, he gave up ... Read allIn 1928, silent comedy star Buster Keaton made what he would later call "the worst mistake of my career": against the advice of fellow silent comedy auteurs like Charlie Chaplin, he gave up his independent production shingle and signed a contract with MGM. A vaudevillian who got ... Read allIn 1928, silent comedy star Buster Keaton made what he would later call "the worst mistake of my career": against the advice of fellow silent comedy auteurs like Charlie Chaplin, he gave up his independent production shingle and signed a contract with MGM. A vaudevillian who got his start working with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, by the late 1920s Keaton had established h... Read all