Heckart played Diane Keaton's meddling mother in the 1996 comedy film The First Wives Club.

Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is " the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made.

Keaton's most successful film of the decade was the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club.

Keaton's only film between the years of 2004 and 2006 was the comedy The Family Stone ( 2005 ), starring an ensemble cast that also included Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, and Craig T. Nelson.

Perhaps the earliest detective comedy is Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. from 1924.

In 1982, Ganz and Mandel teamed up with fellow Happy Days alums Ron Howard — who wanted to start directing — and Henry Winkler — who wanted to move away from his image as Fonzie — to make their first film, the low-budget comedy Night Shift, which was also actor Michael Keaton's first film.

* The basic plot of Brideless Groom is not unique, having been used in ( among others ) Buster Keaton's 1925 comedy Seven Chances ( remade in 1999 as The Bachelor starring Chris O ' Donnell ).

The film is also notable for being Keaton's last silent screen performance.

Among the discovered films is Keaton's long-lost classic The Boat.

Jacques Tati is described as " taking a page from Buster Keaton's playbook.

The name " Acme " is used as a generic corporate name in a huge number of cartoons, comics, television shows ( as early as an I Love Lucy episode ), and film ( as early as Buster Keaton's 1920 silent film Neighbors and Harold Lloyd's 1922 film Grandma's Boy ).

Diane Keaton's real surname is ' Hall ' and director and star were once romantically involved.

There is an ambiguous allusion to Keaton's feature roles in the first two films of The Godfather trilogy.

This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.

In Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr., Keaton's protagonist actually enters into a film while it is playing in a cinema.

2nd-Buster Keaton's co-star Sybil Seely is born.

For Keaton's 1921 short, Hard Luck, Cline is credited with originating Keaton's personal favorite gag from his films.

" The men are so grossly unattractive and the rapes so harrowing, long-drawn-out and starkly presented it is hard to imagine most male spectators identifying with the perpretrators, especially as the film's narrative structure and mise-en-scene force the spectator to view the action from Keaton's point of view.

Zach Braff made his feature film debut in a one-scene role as the son of Allen and Keaton's characters ; Braff later said, " When I look at that scene now, all I can see is the terror in my eyes ".

Griffith's real-life mother Tippi Hedren has a cameo as a rich older woman who is conned by Keaton's character.

Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “ In the end, The Paper offers splashy entertainment that's a lot like a daily newspaper itself -- hot news cools fast .” Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B " rating and Owen Gleiberman praised Michael Keaton's performance: " Keaton is at his most urgent and winning here.

For example, Tell Me Something is inspired by Buster Keaton's movies, Frankenstein's Monster and related characters appear in You Can't Get There From Here, and fictionalized versions of Ernest Hemingway and other writers are the protagonists of The Left Bank Gang.

A 2002 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time.

Lewis was particularly moved by the fact that Eleanor said Lewis ' eyes looked like Keaton's.

The hats were often destroyed during Keaton's wild film antics ; some were given away as gifts and some were snatched by souvenir hunters.

One of Keaton's most iconic and brilliantly-constructed short films, Cops was deemed " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant " by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry in 1997.

Keaton's breakthrough role came two years later when she was cast as Kay Adams, the girlfriend and eventual wife of Michael Corleone ( played by Al Pacino ) in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 blockbuster The Godfather.

Many of Keaton's mannerisms and her self-deprecating sense of humor were added into the role by Allen.

Keaton's first major hit since 1996 came in 2003's Something's Gotta Give, directed by Nancy Meyers and co-starring Jack Nicholson.

As with Keaton's previous projects, the film bombed at the box offices with a gross total of US $ 26. 4 million, and was universally panned by critics, ranking third in the New York Post Top 10 Worst Movies of 2008 overview.

In the episode featuring actor Michael Keaton as a shyster whose con of the moment was parading as a paralyzed born-again evangelist, Martin accepts an invitation to watch a sermon preached by Keaton's character.

A close associate of Chaplin claimed that Chaplin not only did not feel threatened by Keaton's performance, but also heavily edited his own footage of the duet while enhancing Keaton's.

* In the film First Wives Club owned by Diane Keaton's character.

On the train ride, he meets a girl, Virginia ( played by Keaton's wife, Natalie Talmadge ).

According to Keaton's autobiography, Natalie turned him out of their bedroom and hired detectives to follow him.

The Railrodder was made in tandem with a behind-the-scenes documentary about Keaton's life and times, called Buster Keaton Rides Again, also made for the National Film Board.

Comedian Richard Lewis stated that Keaton was his prime inspiration, and spoke of having a close friendship with Keaton's widow Eleanor.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

By the time he was 21, his father's alcoholism threatened the reputation of the family act, so Keaton and his mother, Myra, left for New York, where Buster Keaton's career swiftly moved from vaudeville to film.

Keaton's performance also won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1928, with only a few minor film roles to his credit, Brophy was working as a junior production executive for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer when he was chosen to appear with Buster Keaton in one sequence of Keaton's film The Cameraman.

A semi-remake of Buster Keaton's The General ( 1927 ), Skelton plays a Union soldier who spies for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

The second half of the film features Keaton's character falling for a girl who happens to be a twin.

Silent movies for which they perform the score include Buster Keaton's Cops, Harold Lloyd's Never Weaken, and Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant.