#my wife's relations

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…May 21, 1922 

"My Wife's Relations,” thought to be a playful dig at Buster’s newly acquired in-laws, is shown on pre-release in New York theatres, including Shea’s.

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton My Wife's Relations - 1922

[littlehorrorshop]

Buster Keaton in My Wife’s Relations (1922)

[buster-keaton]

from filmplay magazine, july 1922

transcript:

Hard Knocks Make a Man

Joseph Francis Keaton, sometimes called "Buster", is living proof of the adage

By Spencer Russell

Buster Keaton, he of the frigid countenance, who bears the reputation of being one film comedian who has never been known to smile on the screen, may give the impression to the layman of one who is traveling through the highways and byways of life with a great sorrow in his heart.

It might be suspected that here is a young man who has been cheated out of all the joys of youth and boyhood. One wonders if as a small boy this sad-faced mirth-provoker of today ever smiled, or played or got into mischief like other boys. Then one is amazed to learn that he did.

The fact is that Buster enjoyed the many hard knocks he received in his young life and had a corking good time taking them. You see, Buster, even as a little fellow, was paid for the hard knocks that were dealt out to him. He laughed and smiled a great deal then. Perhaps Buster still smiles once in a while, though certainly never within range of a motion picture camera.

As a boy, Buster romped, and played, and worked all over the length and breadth of this great land. While on the stage he found that his audiences liked him best when he looked his saddest. And for some reason the face of gloom followed him into the film world with a heart that was really gay and carefree.

All of which explains why Buster refuses to laugh now when he faces a camera. He insists that no man is happier than he, and considering his happy marriage to charming little Natalie Talmadge, this claim may well be believed.

The future star of the Buster Keaton Comedies was born in the little town of Pickway[sic], Kansas, October 4, 1895. He was the first child of Myra and Joseph Keaton, both members of the well known stage families.

Young Keaton was named Joseph Francis and at the time of his arrival his parents were traveling with a medicine show, in which Harry Houdini, later one of the world's master magicians, was a leading performer. A few weeks following Buster's birth a cyclone came along and wiped the thriving young village of Pickway[sic] off the map. Fortunately, however, Buster and the other members of the Keaton family had moved away. Six weeks later Keaton became a member of his father's show.

Buster was called "Joseph," when it was necessary to refer to him, until he was six months old, when a wonderful discovery was made. He fell down a flight of stairs and didn't hurt them a bit. He himself escaped uninjured. From then on his name was Buster. At the manly age of four years Buster drew his first salary check, which was in payment for his services as a human football. He had a natural ability for falling and tumbling without injuring his little body and his father, who was an expert tumbler also, coached the little fellow until he became a marvel for one so young. His father sewed a trunk handle inside his coat and Buster's job was to be picked up by this handle and be thrown across the stage, knocking down sets and cutting up in other playful ways.

In all his twenty-odd years on the stage Buster has never suffered an injury. Many times, when a little fellow with his father, he was compelled to strip before officials to prove that his father was not practicing cruelty to his own child. Never was a bruise found. Two governors of New York state and one mayor of New York examined the lad because audiences stated he was roughly treated.

It was October, 1917, in New York City, that Roscoe Arbuckle, the screen comedian, saw Keaton, who, with his father and mother, was rehearsing for their act in the Winter Garden show, and offered him an opportunity to enter the film game. Keaton quit the show immediately to enter the film game. And he made good right at the start. Since that time he has been in motion pictures, and today he is a star in his own right, producing the Buster Keaton Comedies. So far he has never hurt anything but the scenery, a fact which may be hard to understand, for he is only five feet four inches in height and weighs but 139 pounds.

Buster has completed more than a dozen two-reelers since he has been elevated to stardom, and each one has proved successful following its release. Some of his most recent First National attractions are The Boat, The Paleface, Cops, My Wife's Relations, and The Blacksmith. In each of them he has found comedy in the most ordinary situations of everyday life. "Hard knocks of one kind or another have made most great men," says Buster, philosophically. "The only kind of hard knocks I never could get used to were those handed out by audiences and dramatic critics."

[mogwai-movie-house]

One camera, one take. I've really no idea how he did this.

[andiamofratello]

Buster in his oversized PJs in My Wife's Relations (1922)

[maomia0]

What if shen yuan's wife beam is like a combo of being arospec and being the spoiled (second youngest) baby of the family?

Like his older brothers are protective of him, and spoil him, and he in turn spoils his little sister, so he is the perfect storm of taking affection/being spoiled for granted, and also of thinking it's only natural for him to spoil and protect those younger than him.

Of course all his relationships with people after he transmigrates are platonic! This behavior is just like his family! How is he supposed to know people are falling for him left, right, and center?

[rainbow-sunshine-unicorn]

One thing about Season 1 Anthony Bridgerton?

He’s never been right about absolutely anything

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[nillia]

Trust

[mechanicalinfection]

Pretty Bunny <3

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…August 16, 1935

The Daily News, NY prints the following in Ed Sullivan’s Broadway gossip column: “They’d better hush up the Buster Keaton divorce suit, because it will be nasty.”

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton and Kate Price My Wife's Relations - 1922

[littlehorrorshop]

My Wife’s Relations (1922)

[chick-it-out]

hi our local pride is happening tomorrow!! i think it's gonna go real nice but still have to feel a lil 😬 since it hasn't happened yet lol

if u feel like sending good vibes. pls i could use some 🌼🤼🌼

[chocmoon-latte]

No one:

Cooper when he shot up Filly:

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