My Wonderful World of Slapstick - Hardcover

Keaton, Buster; Samuels, C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0047910046 ISBN 13: 9780047910043

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1967

Synopsis

Buster Keaton's autobiography is a view into the quirky mind behind the stoic face of the legendary film comedian.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Samuels, a New York newspaperman, wrote biographies of Jody Garland, Lizzie Borden, and Evelyn Nesbit. He worked with Buster Keaton on My Wonderful World of Slapstick (also available from Da Capo Press). Donald Bogle is the author of Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars (also available from De Capo Press), Blacks in American Film & Television: An Illustrated encyclopaedia, and Toms, Coon, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive Histroy of Blacks in American Films. He has been called "the dean of black film history."

From the Back Cover:

Keaton's autobiography, My Wonderful World of Slapstick, is our only record of the quirky mind behind the stoic face. Filled with stories about his childhood in vaudeville where, billed as 'The Human Mop, ' he was slammed on the floor, hurled into wings, banged on the bass drum-by his father!

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0047910046
• ISBN 13: 9780047910043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282