Eleanor Keaton

Actress

July 29, 1918 (80 years)

† October 19, 1998

Los Angeles, California, U.S

Biography

Eleanor Ruth Keaton (July 29, 1918 – October 19, 1998) was an American dancer and variety show performer. She was an MGM contract dancer in her teens and became the third wife of silent-film comedian Buster Keaton at the age of 21. She is credited with rehabilitating her husband's life and career. The two performed at the Cirque Medrano in Paris and on European tours in the 1950s; she also performed with him on The Buster Keaton Show in the early 1950s.

Filmography

7.6

The Wizard of Oz

Ozmite (uncredited)

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

5.9

Bathing Beauty

Swimmer (uncredited)

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

7.5

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

Self

A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.

6.4

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

7.2

Buster Keaton Rides Again

Self

In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a small cult following. Documenting this mobile production in fascinating and unexpected detail, Buster Keaton Rides Again offers a rare glimpse of the comedy legend’s temperament, philosophies, hobbies, marriage (his third), and the occasionally combative creative process behind the scenes. An intimate look at one of cinema’s most enduring legends.

8.5

Life with Buster Keaton

Buster's shenanigans running a sporting goods store and his antics in a local theatre group.

7.3

The Misadventures of Buster Keaton

Feature film fashioned from parts of Keaton's short-lived TV series "The Buster Keaton Show."

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