The most basic and obvious allure of film is the image. Although I sometimes feel like a cheat when I post pictorials dedicated to classic stars on this blog, they are also the posts I revisit most often. I never tire of looking at these people and I know I’m not alone. Today calls for another such tribute. He would have celebrated a birthday today. His talents eclipsed sound, shined brighter than almost anyone else’s. His signature, dead-pan stare spoke a thousand words. His motion was poetry. He was Buster Keaton.
“One who never smiled, carried a face as still and sad as a daguerreotype through some of the most preposterously ingenious and visually satisfying comedy ever invented. That was Buster Keaton.” James Agee in “Comedy’s Greatest Era” in LIFE magazine (5 September 1949)
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