Caption on the back of the photo (circa 1923):
The question is:
can they make Buster Keaton laugh? Not if he is awake.
Buster has never been known to laugh although he has made millions roar.
Here are three of Buster Keaton’s scenario staff and his director Eddie Cline
trying to “laugh” Keaton into a story.
Keaton once said, “
I developed the ‘Stone Face’ thing quite naturally.
Even as a small kid, I happened to be the type of comic that couldn’t laugh
at his own material. I soon learned at an awful early age that when I laughed
the audience didn’t. So, by the time I got into pictures, that was a natural way of working.”
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courtesy of oldhollywood