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Buster Keaton is a legend...lady is charming..gr8 interview

To have a guest like this is why Johnny is the king of late night. Everybody else just wants to sell a book or CD or movie. Johnny just wants to talk to people.

@patricias5122

9 ай бұрын

Did you notice, too, at the end, how we went to her and graciously took her by the hands>

she was born in 1898, and died in 1994 96 years later. Her silent film career was from 1917-1925. She returned to talkies in 1980-81 plus whatever commercials she may have done.

@lindad.7642

Жыл бұрын

She came back in 1973. Did TV shows. Mary Tyler Moore. Alice. Adam 12,etc

@DeanMk1

10 ай бұрын

She passed 8 days after my father did. Same year.

@Ma_Ba

9 ай бұрын

@@lindad.7642 Just saw her in Season 7 E 19 of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ( In 2023, this was available streaming on Hulu regular plan. ) She played Helen with a few lines of dialogue twice in a party scene being introduced and has comic timing for a joke delivery. They put her in a costume to emphasize being out of date and different cat eye framed glasses.

@Ma_Ba

9 ай бұрын

Came here from a 1977 appearance of season 7 E 19 of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. That show often had bit parts for actors of merit in their older years. Her part had a few lines and delivered 2 jokes.

Bartine is absolutely adorable. Such a beautiful lady. Just saw her on Adam 12. What a charming lady from the early days of Hollywood. I hope to see her in any of the movies she did. Especially with Buster Keaton. She is classy and sassy. Love her.

@hollywoodtimemachine

4 ай бұрын

You can watch "The High Sign" on KZread along with another silent short "Curses!" (1925).

Her voice was amazing!

@patricias5122

9 ай бұрын

she was so sweet, and you can tell she'd been a talented actress. her timing, breath control, enunciation were extremely good!

Sweet interview.. Old golden memories..

such a wonderful interview!!

She was wonderful in Keaton's films. Very interesting here but what stories she could have told before her memory started to fail! Shame that no one got them all down when they could.

@hollywoodtimemachine

2 жыл бұрын

By the time that I met her in 1984, her memory was failing. Although she always said that it was just a matter of "work" to her. Thankfully, her husband rescued many of her production photos from the trash pile. I was then able to identify the film titles from there.

@palafox2237

2 жыл бұрын

@@hollywoodtimemachine Superb that her husband saved the photos!

@patricias5122

9 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more.

Wow this video was suggested to me because I’m recently getting into the silent era of movies and I was shocked to hear she grew up in my hometown, Shreveport LA. She was born 90 years before me but I have relatives who may have known her. They’ve unfortunately all passed away.

What a sweetheart!

Thanks for the post. Elegant lady.

She's so charming! And lovely!

Looks like the other guests on the couch were Arlene Galonka and Tony Bennett. How great to see this. Thanks for posting!

Love this.

WHAT A SWEETHEART!!!

What a great interview.

It is fascinating that EVERYONE who talks about Buster from that era was clearly head-over-heels for him.

@trevorhansen1940

9 ай бұрын

Buster seemed to be an anomaly just like Mel Blanc. There isn't much controversy in their lives, at least later lives. Buster had an upbringing that would make a tyrant, thankfully he knew it didn't define him.

@user-ud7bf7yq2r

9 ай бұрын

You mean in love with him?

Thank you for sharing.

I miss Johnny Carson so much. Best talk show host ever, makes all the current ones look so pathetic.

@JP-vs1ys

9 ай бұрын

i couldn't stand him. but to each his own.

@LewDog053

9 ай бұрын

Dick Cavett

She had a very cute voice.

Thank you.

@hollywoodtimemachine

11 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Keaton, Chaplin, W.C. Fields, the great early directors, like William Wellman, etc., the writers of precode films, later on, people like Oscar Levant, Jonathan Winters, these people are my Mount Rushmore.

Wonderful story

@hollywoodtimemachine

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

Johnny Carson was so kind to her .

The wonderful Lasky studios, that she was such a part of, with Douglas Fairbanks --- what a shame that nobody captured her memories, when they could! Johnny Carson treated her with such courtesy.

She said that Buster used to ruin the takes because he would think of something funny and they had to take the scene over again.

Why is it that I have never seen this episode on Antenna TV? Watch Johnny every night but it's the same episodes over and over.

Bartine Burkett Zane (February 9, 1898 - May 20, 1994)

The High Sign

@user-ud7bf7yq2r

10 ай бұрын

It's so funny when Bartine plays the ukulele in The High Sign.

What’s a “long distance” phone call?

@hollywoodtimemachine

9 ай бұрын

There was a time that any call outside of your area code was considered a "long distance" call and cost more than the usual rate. Most people would only call family members that lived out of town on Sundays to save money.

@brucekuehn4031

9 ай бұрын

Long distance relationships could be expensive! Her ad was for Saturdays, but you could have a surprisingly high bill if you called during the week before 11pm.

She is 81 here.

Johnny was the best.

Sweet interview. Carson had such class. The losers you have now days are pathetic.

Yeah you don't want to go to that party at Fatty Arbuckle's house

Fatty Arbuckle parties - they weren’t for her! Look him up.

@Grimmreefer34

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, no kidding.

Hardy was funny with Stan Laurel, but if you look around, he made some darkly racist single movies.

What a sweetheart!