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Although Buster Keaton was known as "the Great Stone Face," this was a misnomer. Keaton actually had one of the most expressive faces in silent film. His reactions to the curious events around him left no doubt as to how he was feeling. Keaton just didn't need to smile or laugh - that was the audience's job. Keaton was one of the silent era's five great comedians. Only three are well remembered today: Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Keaton (the other two are Harry Langdon, whose fame was brief, and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle whose career was ruined by scandal in 1921). Buster was the least successful financially of the "big three," but today many people revere him above Chaplin, who was immensely popular in his time. Audiences of the 1920s found Keaton's humor -- offbeat, occasionally macabre and often surreal -- hard to... [read full story]
