Buster Keaton LAUGHS

[eMuse5]

The only thing missing in this clip is Blu-Ray style high definition. ;-)

[TheHarlean]

I wonder if Buster was suppost to laugh or not because when he is laughing you can see that he is talking to someone off camera and then he points to Fatty.

[gingerfu91]

Sound effects were not necessary.

[reichmarshall]

@gingerfu91 Press the mute button for the full silent movie experience!

[mrgb46]

This was before Buster starting making his own movies and found that he got more laughs when he didn't smile or any kind of expression.

[setezer]

IT MUST BE FAKE!!!

[TheBookWorm1718]

Makes you wonder if that was planned or if Buster was just that genuinely amused by what had happened.

[lenamay521]

I know right singinginfrench? He looks a lot different when he smiles. He has a nice smile! :)

[filmsjaviersanchez]

Strange event.



[bettydaw1970]

arbuckle sold that sledgehammer shot like he was ric flair!!!!!

[FlippinBooks]

Oh my God. When Buster Keaton actually smiles, he suddenly looks just like Tom Hulce. (the actor who played Mozart in "Amadeus")

[IsabelDhampir82]

Really es Keaton el q rie aqui????, se ve muy diferente, IRRECONOCIBLE!!!...

[KawhackitaRag]

It's weird, he looks unrecognizeable for a moment with the smile.

Anyway, is this stunt for real? Does he really get whacked that hard with that mallet? (hollow or not, that thing was moving FAST). He must have gotten tons of concussions. Lets face it, factoring out diseases that have since been cured, some people back then weren't as prone to getting majorly sick, etc. as some people are today, simply because they didn't put most of artificial crap in foods that people do today.

[EpicFailGirl]

Couldn't help but notice how much 0:14 looks like breasts.

[Ostee1]

is thsi really Bsuter?? no way.... feels weird to see him laughin so impulsively...

[WSenator1]

I look at his films over and over - and enjoy the hell out of them, and him - and I keep wondering: How could somebody take all those bruising falls, even up to the end of his life, and live to be 70? I'm still scratching my head over that one!

[foxpawz]

i guess the stone face worked for him just like the lil tramp outfit worked for charlie, but i'm sure he must of wanted to break out of it at times just to try new things. that's the thing about being an artist. you kinda wanna pleasethe crowds but u also want to explore new things artistically.

[MegaCam18]

@foxpawz Quite the opposite - early in his career, letters sent to Roscoe asked why the 'little man' (Keaton) never smiled - so he tried it at the end of a feature. But when it was greeted with negativity he vowed not to smile in public photographs / his own cinema work again lol!

[NeonStrawberryinc]

what some people don't know is that Buster Keaton actually had a CONTRACT that forbade him from smiling in his movies. interesting, isn't it?

[amaelamin64]

he didn't, it's from his training in vaudeville.

[rentatrip1]

@NeonStrawberryinc you speak a rumor-

he had no such contract - Fact after growing up on Vaudeville stage he understood he got better laughs when he simply used no emotion at all-

his only contract was within his own mind - Harry Houdini named him Buster -

[ubermom]

I can see why he got more laughs with the deadpan.

[sirdoccy]

Nice sound effects there!!

[bettydaw1970]

i really like arbuckle, he was great as well..

[girlhitsbus]

The guy with the cigars looks a bit like Harold Lloyd without make-up

[MissyHolland]

Coney Island is closed now, but it features prominently in so many silemt films; there's a memorable scene in Clara Bow's 'It", too.

[Hemulen40]

HAHAHAHA !

[SinginginFrench]

Whoa, he smiles!!

[xSilyeah]

wow, he smiles : o

sad that he was a deadpan dude, but he doesn't look so normal when he smiles either! XD he fits as a stone face

[MildredDavisLloyd]

Wow, I have never seen him even smile! This was a real treat! He is just so adorable! But Fatty scares me!!!!

[yoginiha]

Thanks for including his smile on Youtube. It's great to see. To give a partial answer to Sitaker1054's question, in Keaton's autobiography, My Wonderful World of Slapstick, he mentioned that he enjoys visits from his children and grandchildren. I do hope that he was able to spend a lot of time with them.

[prettyparisian]

Gorgeous smile =D He smiles in 'Oh doctor' , 'The Bell Boy' & 'The Garage too'- with Fatty Arbuckle. x

[Erisa14]

Simply adore this man!

[lolalebeaux]

Buster laughs and smiles constantly in the flick this is taken from (Coney Island). It is a brilliant little short, one of Fatty and Buster's best.

[moonshiny74]

If you haven't seen The Saphead, I suggest you watch it. He smiles, not once, but twice, in that film. The first time is when he's caught at a gambling hall, and the second is when his sister shows him the newspaper headlines that say he was caught in the gambling hall.

[ekvaughan]

Thanks for the suggestion. I just bought a copy on eBay and can't wait to see him smile. The DVD also has One Week and The High Sign, so I'll get a triple dose of Buster! **Sigh**. He's so gorgeous!!

[moonshiny74]

I know!!! They don't make fellas like him anymore. *sigh* :}~~. The High Sign is the best part of that DVD set. I'd suggest, also, that you pick up the Arbuckle/Keaton collections. You can probably find em on eBay. He smiles in MANY of those two-reelers.

[marciatorresstar]

Buster Keaton is a BEAUTIFUL MAN .

[moonshiny74]

Yesssssssss. :}~~~

[prettyparisian]

So handsome aswell, I think he was beautiful all through his life =) He just has one of those lovable, cute faces. I heard that he smiled and laughed lots too, he said that little children would tell eachother to tickle him and make him laugh when he was out and about haha =D Thanks for sharing, coney island is amazing xx

[prettyparisian]

he laughs and cries in 'Coney Island', Coney Islands the only buster keaton film I've seen him crying in. He has a lovely smile

[tlwalrus]

What a great smile! Man, who does he remind me of with that smile?

[jkeaton28]

I'm proud to say Buster's blood runs in my veins. Really! Notice the username. My grandmother has done research and found that he actually is in our family tree.

[Sitaker1954]

Does anyone know what happened to his sons? His wife changed their names to hers (Talmadge) after she and Buster divorced.

[TheLittleFelloow]

Why did he insist to NOT smile at all in his career .. ? Why didn't he smile often? He is a stone face :p

[noodlepie43]

He didn't smile because when he was a kid doing vaudeville with his parents, he found that when he laughed from being thrown all around, the audience didn't, so he trained himself to be stoic and serious to keep the audience happy...it carried over into his career but here and there, usually when he's working with Fatty, he breaks and laughs, see also the Cook when he cracks a big smile at Fatty dancing wearing pots and pans as a slave girl costume. God he was beautiful *sigh*

[CollarBubble]

Also when he was working with Arbuckle he was under Arbuckle's direction - that's why he does a lot more of the traditional slapstick: getting kicked up the arse, overacting etc. Once he started working on his own films, his pan is almost strictly dead.

[Sitaker1954]

I'd say his pan wasn't dead, it was very subtle. While he often responds to challenges stocially, there are times when dejection, puzzlement or defiance are clear in his face and body. Still, he has a lovely smile. Gorgeous through and through!

[praguephotog]

Yes, it's ironic that a man who was famous for not smiling or laughing onscreen had one of the best smiles in the business! Take a look at the photo of Buster with Arbuckle, Al St. John, and Luke the dog at Coney Island in 1917. They're all smiling.

[ethicomm]

Frankfurter and a roll: 10¢.

[filmfanatic99]

I guess he developed the "stoneface" later in his ouevre.

[767Sandie]

rare.

[mjbari3]

Buster was absolutely gorgeous back then!

[ekvaughan]

OMG, he was so incredibly handsome and had a great body, too. Check out the dressing room scene in The Cameraman. He takes his shirt off (in a comical way of course) and his arms and abs are all buff. Kinda like a 1920s striptease for the ladies!!

[mjbari3]

I know, I know! I have done that scene in slo-mo! He has six pack abs!

[chaussee123]

If you want to see gorgeous closeups of Buster, laughing and mugging, get the Arbuckle-Keaton short His Wedding Night. There are a couple of collections out there with all of their shorts-many gorgeous shots of him.

[Thedivinewoman]

I noticed that too, a seriously fit man in every sense.

[stacyblue1980]

He had a lovely smile! A lovely man.

So nice to see this. Thanks 4 posting. 5*****

[justbe24]

it's the first time I see him laughing:)thanks

[justbe24]

it's the first time I saw him laughing:)

[pegbars]

Keaton smiling and laughing?!  This is heresy! ;)

Thanks for posting this great, rare clip. :)

[06pittor]

ahah, incredible, he laughs! I think too, Keaton's gags are really amazing, technically elaborate; even today he has no equals!

[Hayley820]

Buster , to me, is far and away the best of the funny guys. Arbuckle, Lloyd and Chaplin all have their pluses but for incredible athleticism and sheer laughs you just can't beat him. He TRULY was fantastic! Grew up in vaudeville being thrown about on the stage by his father and I am FIRMLY convinced NO ONE will EVER beat Buster's falls! Nobody....no way.....no how!

[praguephotog]

@Hayley820 You are SO RIGHT! Buster was a true original, and a genius.

[THEtinybrat24]

buster was amazing. :D

[tygersflowerz]

Buster Keaton was a handsome man.

I would've liked to have seen "Tommy Boy" starring David Spade and Chris Farley played in silent form by Fatty and Buster.

(Fatty as Tommy Callahan, and Buster as Richard Hayden.)

I know that's a messed up fantasy because it could never happen, but I'd still like to see it.

[NoeliCanoli85]

Haha, that would be LEGENDARY!

[darkbard357]

Hilarious! Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle were absolutely amazing. This sketch was tame compared to some of their skits!

[CH4ND3113]

are you sire this man is Buster Keaton????? If is him, is really good, excellent, i di`dn`t see him laughing

[fleasong]

He is. I have that DVD that compiled his short films and you should have one. His smiles and Laughs are so-super-charming!

[PsychoHellKat]

u got that right! he should have smiled more often! =D

[avengerscap]

Nope--funnier and more tragic (is "tragicomedy" actually a word?) with his seriousness. Delightful to see someone who brightened so many lives enjoying himself. :-) He had a lot of heartache -- he said far more with his eyes alone than most actors have said since with words, sound and body language1 All hail Buster!

[Jackyclench]

If you want to see the film this is from, simply search youtube for Coney Island 1917.

[tinkerchel]

buster smiled! this is gold!

why didnt they zoom in on his face though..

[NellsStuff]

I've only seen a few of these early shorts, and he seemed to laugh more than expected, as he had already been a dead-pan for years!

[zalamandantoise]

Actually, in The Cameraman, he smiles as well. Near the beginning when he turns around and gets swarmed by pedestrians, he wasn't expecting so many people. He gave a surprised smile/laugh.

[mdumas43073]

Keaton also smiles as a closing gag at the end of the films "Le Roi des Champs-Élysées" (1934) and "San Diego, I Love You" (1944).

[nazrabuc]

Buster el mejor .........

[chaussee123]

People said that Buster laughed alot and laughed easily. He said that sometimes it was so hard to keep the straight face. But if he knew there was a camera around, he tried to keep it.

[funkeemunky]

his smile is so gorgeous! So sad that he barely ever smiled in pictures.

[theodore3455]

and the boy gets a cigar

[DrMalcolm]

Very funny - Buster Keaton has a beautiful smile.

I like how Arbuckle walks off and leaves Keaton on the ground unconscious.

[rafikylopez]

¡Increíble! Jamás pensé ver a Buster Keaton riendose.

[putzilla1286]

I love seeing videos of Buster's smile (or anything other than his stone face!). Another one that I LOVE is the scene in The Wedding Night (another Arbuckle flick) where Buster's dressed in a wedding gown with a bag over his head and about to marry Fatty. Fatty unmasks Buster. There's an excellent close up of Buster where he smiles, laughs and winks at Fatty! It's SO CUTE!

[SkellingtonSkullz]

Do you know where I can find copies of the wedding night? I've been scouring Amazon and ebay to no avail :-( I agree though, it's always nice to see Keaton smiling :-D

[putzilla1286]

Yes, I went on Froogle to find a great Arbuckle/Keaton DVD set. It's EXCELLENT! Although, I was a little mad that I didn't get the full film for "Moonshine". I'm also doubting that some of the intertitles are original. It's still all good!

[lizismestupid]

That was great! He hessitated, so I almost thought he was gonna back out, but he did it! He laughed! And it was worth it! He's fantastic.

[drmoonrat]

I love the boob shaped bells

[darkblue1987]

Aww Buster smiling. That's great. I agree he had a lovely smile. Great clip, thanks for uploading!

[ageneral3]

Raddich: from 'Coney Island' (1917), an awesome short with Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Their entire short collection with is distibuted by IMAGE Entertainment and should not be too hard to locate. Good Luck!

[kufrfangirl]

Arbuckle got a raw deal. He was a good guy and he was run through the shredder. Now, though, people remember his name and enjoy his movies and nobody gives a flip for the reporters who smeared him. Awesome clip!!!

[raddich]

Does anyone know what film this clip is from?

[MissyHolland]

It's from the Fatty Arbuckle short called Coney Island,

made in 1917.

[Jackyclench]

Coney Island 1917.

[bencheshire]

And poor Roscoe - the Hearst press ruined his career and his life.

[Flickerfly]

You know, in all the silent movies I've seen, I've never seen anyone laugh like that, bending over and clasping their hands between their knees. That was a Buster trademark he COULD have had, had he chosen to smile in his movies. It's very unique.

[Sitaker1954]

In his film Neighbors, Buster watches Babe Ruth through a hole in a fence, and enthusiastically claps. He's boyish and charming. Thanks for pointing out his gift for expressing emotions in a way that was utterly familiar, yet all his own.

[xgirlfiendx]

So he wasn't always the great stone face...hmmm. Nice to see some emotion though.

[Flickerfly]

Oh, but I think he could show plenty emotion without smiling....I mean, he could be angry, wistful, sad, confused. If he wanted to show he was happy he would slowly close his eyes and sigh and clasp his hands together.

[ameliazc]

To add: in fact Keaton was strictly against the smiling thing in his own films - the situation was always that some suit was like, "Hey! This would be novel!" If BK saw any sort of camera around (after going solo,) he would consistently revert to deadpan.

He did have a gorgeous smile, though. Louise Brooks said he was the most beautiful man she ever knew. To quote: "And she was no slouch."

[Iguana56]

Keaton actually planned to smile in several of his own comedies, but preview audiences didn't like him to break character, so he invariably cut the smiling out.

[missmorte]

Nice sound track Mr. Lee.