Título: Buster Keaton
Seção: Sound era and television
Background: Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. 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". Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies". His career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his artistic independence when he was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and he descended into alcoholism, ruining his family life.

Conteúdo: Keaton signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1928, a business decision that he would later call the worst of his life. He realized too late that the studio system MGM represented would severely limit his creative input. For instance, the studio refused his request to make his early project, Spite Marriage, as a sound film and after the studio converted, he was obliged to adhere to dialogue-laden scripts. However, MGM did allow Keaton some creative participation on his last originally developed/written silent film The Cameraman, 1928, which was his first project under contract with them, but hired Edward Sedgwick as the official director.  Keaton was forced to use a stunt double during some of the more dangerous scenes, something he had never done in his heyday, as MGM wanted badly to protect its investment. "Stuntmen don't get laughs," Keaton had said. Some of his most financially successful films for the studio were during this period. MGM tried teaming the laconic Keaton with the rambunctious Jimmy Durante in a series of films, The Passionate Plumber, Speak Easily, and What! No Beer? The latter would be Keaton's last starring feature in his home country. The films proved popular. (Thirty years later, both Keaton and Durante had cameo roles in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, albeit not in the same scenes.)  In the first Keaton pictures with sound, he and his fellow actors would shoot each scene three times: one in English, one in Spanish, and one in either French or German. The a

user: What was the sound era about?

assistant: series of films,

user: What films?

assistant: silent film The Cameraman, 1928,

user: Any other films?

assistant: Spite Marriage,

user: Were there any more films?

assistant: The Cameraman, 1928, which was his first project under contract with them,

user: Any more films after this one?

assistant: The Passionate Plumber, Speak Easily, and What! No Beer?

user: Were any of these films critical acclaimed?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Was he in any of these films?

assistant: Thirty years later, both Keaton and Durante had cameo roles in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,

user: Any more films he was in?

assistant: he made another film, in England, The Invader (released in the United States as An Old Spanish Custom in 1936).

user: What another films were there?

assistant: Le Roi des Champs-Elysees.

user: Did keaton win any awards or accomplishments?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Can you give me more information?

assistant: Keaton signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1928, a business decision that he would later call the worst of his life.