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Buster Keaton: An Interview

1966; University of California Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1210393

1533-8630

Arthur B. Friedman, Buster Keaton,

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

FEINSTEIN: Mr. Keaton, is it true that Harry Houdini first named you Buster?1 KEATON: Yeah, that's right. The show I was born with was a one night stand in Pickway, Kansas, in 1895, the Keaton and Houdini medicine show company. Harry Houdini, the handcuff king. My father was a grotesque comedian and my mother was the ingenue soubrette, a singer and dancer in the show. F: How come Houdini called you Buster? K: I fell down a flight of stairs when I was around six months old. They picked me up... no bruises, didn't seem to hurt myself and Houdini said, That was a Buster. And the old man says, That's a good name; we'll call him that. F: How did you write yourself into your parents' act, and become the Three Keatons?