Buster Keaton ever made. Keaton was recognized as the seventh-greatest film director by "Entertainment Weekly", and the American Film Institute ranked him in 1999 as the 21st greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema. Keaton was born into a vaudeville family in Piqua, Kansas, the small town where his mother, Myra Keaton ("née" Cutler), was when she went into labor. He was named "Joseph" to continue a tradition on his father's side (he was sixth in a line bearing the name Joseph Keaton) and "Frank" for his maternal grandfather, who disapproved of his parents' union. Later, Keaton changed his middle name to
The Buster Keaton Show the original commercials for Studebaker cars. (This was an era where television shows typically had a single sponsor, with "The Buster Keaton Show" having three commercial breaks, each for Studebaker.) This was Keaton's second foray into the new medium of television. It followed the 1949 one-off "The Buster Keaton Comedy Show". Broadcast live, no record of that first program remains and it was not seen by viewers outside California, as it was not filmed in kinescope nor was there a coaxial cable linking the coasts at that time. The Buster Keaton Show The Buster Keaton Show was a television series