Inside Buster Keaton's Many Mansions

Buster Keaton wasn't just a comedic genius—he was a pioneer who revolutionized the art of silent film with his daring stunts and deadpan expression. But behind the scenes, Keaton's rise to stardom was accompanied by extravagant mansions, tumultuous relationships, and devastating setbacks.

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[jefflebowski]

Buster Keaton is my favorite silent era actor, he did all of his own stunts.

[yimgigl]

Thanks, Ken. I recall seeing Buster Keaton on TV in the late 1950’s & early’60’s when I was a little girl. Now, I wish I had been more observant.

[CuriousEarthMan]

Thanks Ken! Keaton did extraordinary work. His stunts were classics. Thanks for covering much of his life along with brief images ofhis mansions!

[michaelwhite]

Madge, this touched on his career and barely discussed his homes at all.

[jetsons]

We have a DVD of 1963's It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. There were MANY cameo appearances in the movie, one of them was Buster Keaton. Buster's homes were great and grand, but they are in the shadow of the man, Buster Keaton.

[williamtyre]

Thanks for a great video, I have always been a huge fan of Keaton's movies. Really interesting to see how he used his own house for one of them.

[davidbrims]

James Mason, a fan of silent films, bought Buster Keaton’s house when he moved to Hollywood from England. After his million dollar divorce from his wife Pamela in the 1960s, she took him to the cleaners, he moved to a villa in Switzerland overlooking Lake Geneva, his neighbour was Charlie Chaplin.

[anncarlin]

I can remember the daytime TV pioneer Gary Moore looked a lot like Buster and spoke several times that because Keaton recognized this and met and liked Gary that in K's old age, he had given his film catalogue to Gary and asked that he take care of it and see that it was protected. Gary was always proud of the fact that he had it and I'm sure saw to it that it was.

[StamperWendy]

4:00 to 4:30 oh, my, Ken, you had me laughing! Thank you for making the video I asked for, 2nd time! ❤

[jecny]

Keaton was a legend. His deadpan expression may have inspired Jack Benny, another famed comedian known for his silent dull fascial expressions. I remember seeing Keaton in a skit for "Candid Camera" where he sat at a lunch counter in a diner and predictably, everything that could go wrong did as all the people sitting near him were desperately trying not to explode with laughter completely unaware it was a set up and that they were sitting next to one of the greatest comedic geniuses of all time.

[mikenixon]

Great report Ken. I had no idea Buster Keaton would have multiple mansions. As you said he was a pioneer and standard setter. No computer imaging for real actors then and through the 20th century. I can easily say I liked his "comfortable" house the best.

[sharksport]

Buster was in the movie Sunset Boulevard.

[jliscorpio]

If you are wondering when they finally start talking about Buster Keaton's mansions it's 3:10

[seattlebeard]

It's pronounced: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (sounds like mayor, not mire)

[MidwestMay]

His movies are genius silly fun. Not nice that people don't know now more about him now.
He looks like Mr. Beast and when I say that he looks like Mr. Beast, people ask who's Buster Keaton.

[josephpiskac]

Keaton was infinite and his wife was zero.

[malvinderkaur]

Just think what insecure greed drives you to amass hoard things you do not even use and nobody else can, you can only live at one place at a time, so all of your properties if not put to use lie rotting useless and it never occurs to you why are you doing it, same resources can be used to be useful for others minus greed in a way that you also do not lose out yet your contribution towards something good useful carry on