The General is awesome. Keaton was one heck of a daredevil.
Just the other day I was looking up old movie-star home prices and came across the below site. Excerpt from a much longer article on Buster Keaton and his homes. I didn’t realize he was that big of a star back in the day.
https://www.hiltonhyland.com/post/legendary-estates-of-beverly-hills-pamela-drive/
When Buster Keaton showed guests around his grand Spanish-style mansion on a three-and-one-half-acre estate a block behind the Beverly Hills Hotel, he sometimes joked, “I took a lot of pratfalls to build that dump.”
The twenty-room mansion was hardly a dump; it was one of the finest homes of the 1920s film stars....
[His parents] performed a medicine show and vaudeville act of acrobatics, comedy, and music. While playing in Piqua, Kansas, first child Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895. He appeared onstage with his parents the next day.
When the three-year-old took a tremendous tumble down a flight of stairs and got up unharmed, famed magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, a friend and the child’s godfather said, “What a buster your kid took!” (The word buster meant a dangerous fall.)