learned pantomine, made2 tours to U.S.
the 8126 ft. final cut from 215,000 ft.
1941 - divorced 3rd wife Paulette Goddard (1936-42); widely publicized affair with Pola Negri; paternity suit by actress Joan Barry resulted in 2 trials, found guilty despite negative blood tests (then inadmissible in California).
1943 - married 4th wife, 18-year old Oona O'Neill (1943-77).
1952 - Attorney General James McGranery revoked re-entry permit, stayed in Europe.
1972 - visit to U.S. to receive special Academy Award for "incalculable effect in making motion pictures the art form of the century" and then returned to Switzerland.
1977 - died December 25 in Vevey, Switzerland.
"Buster Keaton or the work of comedy in the age of mechanical reproduction" article from Cineaste 21, July 1995, pp.14-17.
Hollywood: Comedy - A Serious Business, episode 8, Thames documentary written by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, 1979, rebroadcast on TCM 1997.