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Long hair appreciation.

Buster Keaton - The General (1926)

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#buster keaton #our hospitality #i guess

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Tell me whether you're as crazy as you seem.

#my god buster is so nuanced #buster keaton #breaking the fourth wall #good night nurse

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Bustober | Day 7: clown

#such a cute clown too

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too cute for his own good Buster Keaton in The Saphead (1920)

#yes that crossed out caption is apt #buster keaton #too cute for his own good!

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Buster Keaton + more and more letterboxd reviews

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#yes please do more!! #buster keaton #greek god

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BUSTER KEATON in THE CAMERAMAN (1928)

#omg such a beautiful man #buster keaton #the cameraman #that face! #josephine the monkey

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#ThrowbackThursday Loew’s were lobbying for Buster Keaton’s success in features & their own in takings by going all out in their lobby to advertise “Three Ages,” 1923.

#buster keaton #three ages

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Buster so-much-for-The-Great-Stone-Face Keaton in Three Ages (1923)

#buster keaton #that face! #three ages

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Real life tumblr trumping romance cinema!

So a while back I won a cheap eBay auction listing for a collection of love letters from the first world war.

They arrived today, and...the listing was WAY more than I expected for the price I won it for. There's over 100, and they're not just from WWI, but from 1906 (earliest I've found so far) through to 1915.

Charlie writes to his girlfriend, Gertrude. This is the most beautiful, lovesick stuff I've ever read. He sends her so many letters, sometimes twice a day, and lots of poems. He seems to have been an artist, as he talks a lot about small exhibitions of his stuff, and included a flyer for one. He also talks about how her parents don't approve of them and how he's desperately awaiting the day they'll be married.

I haven't found the latest of the letters, but the fact it's up until 1915 and then stops...doesn't give me hope for a happy ending.

This man continuously refers to his precious beloved Gertie as his queen and goddess, and whilst most of it is sickly sweet, there's some raunchy stuff too, with him talking about how he can't wait until they have a little house together and can 'please each other all day'...

There's. So many.

I'm going to put them in order by date, read them through, and then maybe even transcribe them so we can find out a bit about Charlie and Gertie's love story.

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BUSTER KEATON + ANIMALS

(idea by @iskanderthebi ✨)

#buster keaton #animals

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This Day in Buster…October 7, 1923

The Spokesman-Review reports that Buster Keaton grew his hair into a bob for his caveman role in “Three Ages.” Bet you thought it was a wig, didn’t you? Well…it probably is ;)

#buster keaton #three ages #long hair appreciation #I had no idea!!!!

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🌸 Buster Keaton + Flower Meanings (1/2)🌸

(idea by @silencervalkyrie✨)

#buster keaton #flowers #flower meanings

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🌸 Buster Keaton + Flower Meanings (2/2)🌸

(idea by @silencervalkyrie✨)

#buster keaton #flowers #flower meanings

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Buster Keaton in College (1927)

#buster keaton #college

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#who can resist this? #bad ass

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Buster Keaton

"Keaton’s face ranked almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irreducibly funny."

- James Agee

"Keaton was doubtless the most unpretentious (perhaps even unconscious) Surrealist worthy of the name, & his movies shimmer with incongruous images which are both uproarious yet faintly disturbing."

- Stephen Harvey

"With his impassive face, he did not seek lovability. The face is resolute, seriously responsible, if often in a mad way. It also fits his body and the way it moves."

- Vincent Canby

"In a way his pictures are like a transcendent juggling act in which it seems that the whole universe is in exquisite flying motion & the one point of repose is the juggler’s effortless, uninterested face."

- James Agee

"The medium was still in its infancy; comics were pioneering the craft of making people laugh at moving images. Keaton, it turns out, knew it all — intuitively."

- Richard Corliss