Marion Meade/Buster Keaton Archive, 1895-1997.

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Marion Meade/Buster Keaton Archive, 1895-1997.

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The Marion Meade/Buster Keaton Archive consists of her research files compiled and used to write the book, Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase. Arrangedin eight series, the first series is made up of six boxes of subject files ranging from child abuse to Keaton genealogies and military records to death certificates. Correspondence is the bulk of the second and third groupings of four boxes. Included here are interviews with and letters from Keaton's friends and family as well as other Keaton researchers. Boxes ten-fourteen contain a chronological log book of Keaton's life. Series five and six include material relating to the actual writing and publication of Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase. Everything from typescript drafts to reviews and photos to page proofs are found in these two series. Series seven contains audiotapes of interviews conducted by Marion Meade and series eight consists of published books about Keaton and Keaton videos.

Papers, 27.5 linear ft.Audiotapes, 3 linear ft.Videotapes, 21 tapes.

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Meade, Marion, 1934-....

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Marion Meade's previous biography subjects include Eleanor of Acquitane, Madame Blavatsky, Victoria Woodhull, Dorothy Parker, and Buster Keaton. (The Special Collections Department also has the research files for Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase.) Meade studied at Northwestern University and holds a Master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She has contributed articles to The New York Times and The Village Voice, in addition to writing two novels. She lives in New York City...

Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966

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Comedian. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph Francis (Buster) Keaton : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743794 ...