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My Wonderful World of Slapstick - by Buster Keaton & Charles Samuels (Paperback)

My Wonderful World of Slapstick - by  Buster Keaton & Charles Samuels (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Buster Keaton's autobiography is a view into the quirky mind behind the stoic face of the legendary film comedian.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Keaton's autobiography, My Wonderful World of Slapstick, is our only record of the quirky mind behind the stoic face. Filled with stories about his childhood in vaudeville where, billed as 'The Human Mop, ' he was slammed on the floor, hurled into wings, banged on the bass drum-by his father!<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Charles Samuels, </b> a New York newspaperman, wrote biographies of Jody Garland, Lizzie Borden, and Evelyn Nesbit. He worked with Buster Keaton on <i>My Wonderful World of Slapstick</i> (also available from Da Capo Press). Donald Bogle is the author of <i>Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars</i> (also available from De Capo Press), <i>Blacks in American Film & Television: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, </i> and <i>Toms, Coon, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive Histroy of Blacks in American Films.</i> He has been called the dean of black film history.

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