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 Buster  KEATON  &  Eleanor NORRIS

 

 Joseph Frank Keaton VI nacque a Piqua nello stato dell'Ohio il 4 ottobre del 1895 e morì a Woodland Hills in California il primo febbraio del 1966 dopo essere stato uno dei mostri sacri del cinema muto di Hollywood.

 Regista e sceneggiatore ma soprattutto attore celebre per quella sua aria stralunata e per il talento acrobatico è considerato uno dei giganti del cinema burlesco.

 Tenuto all'oscuro del cancro ai polmoni che lo stavo minando, si spense placidamente dopo aver giocato in casa un'ultima volta a Bridge con gli amici.

 Il Bridge oltre che ad essere l'hobby della sua vita, ebbe il merito di fargli conoscere la terza ed ultima moglie che lo accompagnò felicemente fine alla fine dei suoi giorni: Eleanor Ruth Norris.

 Eleanor (29 luglio 1918 - 19 ottobre 1998), che è stata a sua volte fu nota ballerina ed attrice, conobbe Buster Keaton quando aveva solo 18 anni perché aveva il desiderio di imparare a giocare a Bridge e alcuni amici gli dissero che Buster, che era solito giocare tutti i giorni, avrebbe potuto essergli buon maestro.

Eleanor divenne la signora Keaton nel 1940 lei ventunenne e Buster 44enne e , dopo la morte di lui, lavorò a lungo per restaurare i vecchi film che vedevano il marito inimitabile mimo, lasciandoci quella cineteca di cui oggi possiamo godere.

Eleanor scomparve nel 1998 colpita dallo stesso male che gli aveva sottratto il marito oltre venti anni prima.

Keaton ed Eleanor rappresentarono uno dei migliori esempi di matrimoni lunghi e felici tra stelle di Hollywood.

Joseph Frank Keaton, known professionally as Buster Keaton (1895 - 1966), was an American comic actor and filmmaker. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".

 Keaton was recognized as the seventh-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

 In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Keaton the 21st-greatest male actor of all time.

 Buster played Bridge all his life and met his wife Eleanor thanks to this his hob

 Eleanor Keaton (1918 - 1998) was "Buster" Keaton's third wife. 

 Eleanor was 18 years of age and a dancer at MGM; keen to learn how to play bridge she was taken to a house "where they played bridge every day and there was a good teacher". 

 The house was Buster Keaton's and he was her good teacher. It was several months before a romance began and all because Eleanor shouted in response to heckling by a fellow card player, Buster looked up from his cards and really noticed her for the first time. 

 Nearly two years after they first met Eleanor asked Buster to marry her and on May 29th 1940 they were married. Buster was 44 and she was 21. 

None of their friends thought it would last and they actually tried to talk her out of marrying him. Luckily they didn't and Buster and Eleanor were happily married for nearly 26 years. 

For the rest of his life Buster and Eleanor were rarely far from each other and she accompanied him on set whilst he worked and even appeared on stage with him. 

Eleanor worked hard to help Buster restore his place in film history and it could be said that if she did not come along we would not have seen many of the wonderful Buster Keaton movies that we see today. 

Eleanor died in Oct 1998 of Lung Cancer the same disease that had killed her husband in 1966.

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