Buster Keaton the City of Los Angeles declared the date "Buster Keaton Day." Keaton designed and modified his own pork pie hats during his career. In 1964, he told an interviewer that in making "this particular pork pie", he "started with a good Stetson and cut it down", stiffening the brim with sugar water. The hats were often destroyed during Keaton's wild film antics; some were given away as gifts and some were snatched by souvenir hunters. Keaton said he was lucky if he used only six hats in making a film. Keaton estimated that he and his wife Eleanor made thousands
Robert Anderson (silent film actor) Robert Anderson (silent film actor) Robert Christian Anderson (July 22, 1890 - June 25, 1963) was an American actor of Danish birth who appeared in silent films. Anderson was born in Odense, Denmark. He was also a make-up artist and director (of one short). Anderson and D.W. Griffith were the principal makeup artists on Griffith's monumental classic "Intolerance". He later appeared in Griffith's World War I propaganda film "Hearts of the World" (1918). In addition to "Hearts of the World" Anderson can be seen today in surviving silent films such as "The Heart of Humanity" (1918) another World War I