#joe keaton
In 1920, Buster Keaton suffered a broken ankle filming a sequence with the moving staircase he built for The Electric House. Production was stopped while he recovered, and the movie was restarted from scratch in 1922. No footage from the original production is known to survive.
Sorry, but we’re going to do an ‘Actually…“
Actually it was not a broken ankle but very badly torn tendons/ligaments however the injury did require a cast & weeks of rest.
Pictured here with parents, Myra & Joe.
#WIPWednesday Buster Keaton considers whether the butler did it in this promo pic from the set of “Sherlock Jr.” which went on general U.S release 98 years ago today.
This Day in Buster…May 10, 1924
The News-Pilot reported that when Buster Keaton recently needed a birth certificate, his father Joe wrote a letter to Piqua, Kansas & had it returned with ‘no such place’ written on it. Nearby Cherryvale confirmed the town had been blown away in a cyclone & that what was left was repurposed in their town. The whole thing was a Keaton family tall story - today Piqua is the site of the Buster Keaton Museum kansastravel.org/busterkeatonmuseum.htm
