In between takes on the set near the Brooklyn Bridge, Keaton told a reporter something similar, summarizing the theme as " a man may keep away from everybody but he can't get away from himself.

Keaton ’ s negative comments about the film are often reported but this final recollection by Schneider may redress the balance: “ hatever he may have subsequently said to interviewers or reporters about not understanding a moment of what he was doing or what the film was about, what I remember best of our final farewell on the set was that he smiled and half-admitted those six pages were worth doing after all .”

Co-starring Kevin Kline and Dianne Wiest and set in Colorado, the film follows a woman, played by Keaton, whose husband loses her much-beloved dog at a wedding held at their vacation home in the Rocky Mountains, resulting in a search party to find the pet.

Even though there was often no set release schedule, these series could be considered somewhat like a modern TV sitcom – lower in status than feature films but nevertheless very popular ( comedians such as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton all ' graduated ' from shorts to features ).

His supposed accomplice, Jack Keaton, was set free and, on Dula's word, Melton was acquitted of the crime.

Buster Keaton rides a dandy-horse in his 1923 film Our Hospitality, which is set in the 1830s.

Buster Keaton made his final film appearance in the role of Erronius.

In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

It was in these early years that Remi developed a love of cinema, particularly favouring Windsor McCay's pioneering animated film Gertie the Dinosaur and the films featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton ; his later work in the comic strip medium would display an obvious influence from these early films in style and content.

* 2005: The Three Ages ( new soundtrack to the Buster Keaton film )

However, during his own silent film career, the nearest Keaton had appeared in a " police comedy " was The Goat ( 1921 ) and Cops ( 1922 ).

Starring Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, and featuring Michael Keaton as the obnoxious bio-exorcist Beetlejuice, the film grossed $ 80 million on a relatively low budget and won an Academy Award for Best Makeup.

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

The result was Batman Returns which featured Michael Keaton returning as the Dark Knight, and a new triad of villains: Danny DeVito ( as the Penguin ), Michelle Pfeiffer ( as Catwoman ) and Christopher Walken as Max Shreck, an evil corporate tycoon and original character created for the film ( similar to Superman IIIs Ross Webster ).

* January 5 – Diane Keaton, American actress and film director

* October 4 – Buster Keaton, American actor and film director ( d. 1966 )

** Buster Keaton, American actor and film director ( b. 1895 )

Having grown up in Hollywood, the son of a studio production manager and grandson of a silent film director, Edwards had watched the films of the great silent clowns, including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy.

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

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.

" Mason found numerous cans of previously " lost " Keaton films in the house in the 1950s ; the films were quickly transferred by Raymond Rohauer to safety film before the original cellulose nitrate prints further deteriorated.

In 1955, Keaton was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

A 1957 film biography, The Buster Keaton Story, starred Donald O ' Connor as Keaton.

In 1994, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld penned a series of silent film stars for the United States Post Office, including Rudolph Valentino and Keaton.

Hirschfeld said that modern film stars were more difficult to depict, that silent film comedians such as Laurel and Hardy and Keaton " looked like their caricatures ".

Keaton said he was lucky if he used only six hats in making a film.

In 1987 Italian singer-songwriters Claudio Lolli and Francesco Guccini wrote a song, Keaton, about his work in Italy on the film Due Marines e un Generale

Based on Scott McPherson's screenplay adaptation of his own 1991 stage play of the same name, the film revolves around two sisters, played by Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, who are reunited through tragedy after 17 years of estrangement.

Keaton claimed he was having so much fun that he would sometimes begin laughing as his father threw him across the stage.

The latter chose the last name Keaton simply because he came across a picture of actress Diane Keaton and " liked the sound of name ," so he adopted it as his own.

Couldn ’ t speak — he was not so much difficult, he just wasn ’ t there .’ Keaton would in fact die 18 months after the shooting of Film .”

" Similarly, journalist Matt Taibbi has said of Friedman's writing that, " Friedman came up with lines so hilarious you couldn't make them up even if you were trying – and when you tried to actually picture the ' illustrative ' figures of speech he offered to explain himself, what you often ended up with was pure physical comedy of the Buster Keaton / Three Stooges school, with whole nations and peoples slipping and falling on the misplaced banana peels of his literary endeavors.

Roger Ebert wrote that " Nicholson and Keaton bring so much experience, knowledge and humor to their characters that the film works in ways the screenplay might not have even hoped for.

Though some critics found that Keaton was underused in the film, the actress was generally praised for performance, with James Berardinelli of ReelViews noting that " Diane Keaton is so good at her part that one can see her sliding effortlessly into an anchor's chair on a real morning show.

A rumor has persisted, fueled by the intense rivalry among fans of the two comics, that Keaton gave such a superior performance that Chaplin jealously cut his scenes so he would not be upstaged by his rival.

Keaton allegedly walked out of filming, which gives somewhat of an explanation as to why the film ended so suddenly.

" According to one writer, he directed it " to prove he could also handle comedy ," and hired many of the leading comedic actors of the previous decades, from silent star Buster Keaton to emerging talent Jonathan Winters.

His last work, in 1935, was as a producer-director for Educational Pictures ; he directed Buster Keaton in The Timid Young Man and Joan Davis in Way Up Thar.

He was named " Joseph " to continue a tradition on his father's side — he was sixth in a line bearing the name Joseph Keaton — and " Frank " for his maternal grandfather, who disapproved of the parents ' union.

" According to one biographer, Keaton was made to go to school while performing in New York, but only attended for part of one day.

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.

The singular event that triggered Mae filing for divorce in 1935 was her finding Keaton in flagrante delicto with the infamous Leah Clampitt Sewell on the 4th of July of that same year in a hotel in Santa Barbara.

Keaton has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 6619 Hollywood Boulevard ( for motion pictures ); and 6321 Hollywood Boulevard ( for television ).

* Neibaur, James L., The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia ( 2010 ) Scarecrow Press

Instead, the number was replaced by one featuring Buster Keaton, though Dressler did pose for stills wearing a Lady Godiva wig.

Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton were nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress, but lost to Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond.

With Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Berle wrote the title song for the RKO Radio Pictures release Li ' l Abner ( 1940 ), an adaptation of Al Capp's comic strip, featuring Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat.

Hawn returned to the screen again in 1996 as the aging, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot in the financially and critically successful The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit " You Don't Own Me " for the film's soundtrack.

In 2001, Hawn was reunited with former co-stars Warren Beatty ( her co-star in $ and Shampoo ) and Diane Keaton for the comedy Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco.

The director co-stars as Alvy Singer, who investigates the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the film's eponymous female lead ( Diane Keaton ).

The film met widespread critical acclaim and, along with the 1978 Academy Award for Best Picture, won Oscars in three other categories: two for Allen ( Best Director and, with Brickman, Best Original Screenplay ), and Keaton for Best Actress.