Buster Keaton "Francis". His father was Joseph Hallie "Joe" Keaton, who owned a traveling show with Harry Houdini called the Mohawk Indian Medicine Company, which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side. According to a frequently repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname "Buster" at about 18 months of age. Keaton told interviewer Fletcher Markle that Houdini was present one day when the young Keaton took a tumble down a long flight of stairs without injury. After the infant sat up and shook off his experience, Houdini remarked, "That was a real buster!" According to Keaton,
Speak Easily East West Entertainment. The first ever DVD release in the UK is from Powis Square Pictures in January 2009. Speak Easily Speak Easily is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd, and directed by Edward Sedgwick. The studio also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in "The Passionate Plumber" and "What! No Beer?" Keaton later used many of the physical gags he created for this film later when he wrote (uncredited) gags for the Marx Brothers' "A Night At The Opera". Prof. Post (Buster Keaton) is a shy