The Stolen Screen Part 15: (Buster Keaton)
The Independent Ethnic American Genius Crushed by MGM’s Machine Picture the unyielding face of the American heartland—stoic, resilient, forged in the fires of pioneer hardship and vaudeville grit. That is the essence of Buster Keaton, born Joseph Frank Keaton on October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas, to parents of sturdy English, Irish, and Scottish stock. …