Slideshow
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Buster Keaton
SPITE MARRIAGE
Sunday, April 10 at 1:40 pm ♪
♪ Live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner
Read an excerpt from James Curtis' Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life on SPITE MARRIAGE.
SPITE MARRIAGE
U.S., 1929
Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick
Starring Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian
35mm. Approx. 75 min.
Star-struck pants presser Buster (in his silent swan song) weds Broadway diva Dorothy Sebastian on the rebound. Motion Picture Magazine called his desperate struggle to put his limply drunken bride to be, to bed “the funniest scene ever seen on the screen.” Archival 35mm print courtesy Warner Bros.