Recollections of

Buster Keaton
 
 
 

Buster Keaton was a true genius of comedy.

He is widely renown for his great talent and many classic films.
 
 
 

At the age of 18 in 1929,
an aspiring Dorothy Lee attended her first big Hollywood Party at Buster Keaton's lavish Italian style mansion that he had built for his wife Natalie Talmadge.

She said that she had never been so impressed in all her life than when she saw Buster Keaton do one of his acrobatic acts by falling down the stairs.

She remembered:

 "It was my first big party and I was 18 and still pretty green. And I’ll never forget Buster Keaton. He was the sweetest, nicest man you could ever know. He never smiled, but he would always crack jokes and be very funny.

Anyway, at the party we were all in the family room. For Buster’s grand entrance, he appeared at the top of the stairs. Then he fell all the way down them! We all just about fainted from the shock of it. But he was perfectly fine, and surprised us all.

It was just a riot!"
 

Below
 
 

In the 1960s, Dottie socializing with Buster and a mutual friend.

She had nothing but the fondest memories of him.
 
 

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