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After a childhood spent with his parents on the vaudeville circuit,
21-year-old Joseph
Francis "Buster" Keaton was already a show-biz veteran
when he started making movies in 1917. He quickly established
himself as a popular screen clown, but there was something about
his work that elevated him above the crowds of pie-throwers. In
shorts and features made between 1919 and 1928, exercising total
control over his films, Keaton
developed a persona--the stone-faced stoic wrestling with an uncooperative
universe--that was both hilariously funny and touchingly human.
He made films that were more than strings of gags, but he didn't
succumb to the sentimentality that afflicts so many comedians
who try to broaden their range. His technical skill was unsurpassed,
and as a mime he has few equals, but the most marvelous thing
about Buster
Keaton was that he used these remarkable talents to do something
as magical as making people laugh.
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