Buster in an MGM promo photo from 1932 about his land yacht. Sold here.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Thanks to the wonderful people at the Herrick Library and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences — Myra Keaton’s personal scrapbook is now available online!!! Have fun, Busterfans - it’s chock full of Vaudeville goodies and wonderful stuff!! Enjoy browsing some real Keaton history (and thank the good folks at the Herrick Library via a nice email if you get a chance).
Happy Birthday, Gary Cooper (May 7th, 1901 - May 13th, 1961)
“I looked at it this way. To get people to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don’t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.”
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has to always be out of step with his time.
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Happy Birthday, Orson Welles, (May 6th, 1915 - October 10th, 1985)
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
Rudolph Valentino (May 6th, 1985 - August 23rd, 1926) Photo by Edward Steichen
The death of Valentino is a terrific loss to the screen. He brought it happiness„ beauty, and art as perhaps no other has. His loss can never be replaced; there was and can be only one Valentino; a great artist and one of the finest gentlemen it has ever been my privilege to term ‘friend’.” - John Gilbert
