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If you have been following Buster Keaton’s filmography, this is where he first was paired with Jimmy Durante. That’s when he had completely lost control of his films. He became a backup player to Durante afterwards. And that was a shame.

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  3. If they had known I was still essentially a slapstick comedian they would not have bought for me the sort of stories they did. These purchases included two Broadway farces: Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath, and Her Cardboard Lover. In Her Cardboard Lover I was assigned the role played on the stage by Leslie Howard, an Englishman with gazelle eyes and manners to match. M-G-M renamed it The Passionate Plumber, which was nothing compared to the names the critics called our movie version.

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    Hard pressed on all sides, the kingpins of Hollywood were forced to make experiments. Many of these turned out disastrously, something which is inevitable when the experiments are inspired by fear and undertaken as a last resort. The experiment I know most about was the one made by Louis B. Mayer when he teamed up Jimmy Durante and myself in a series of features. There is no one in the world like Durante, bless him, but in my opinion we just did not belong in the same movies.

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    At any rate, as I see it, there was no way to mesh, match, or blend Durante’s talents with mine.

    — Buster Keaton, My Wonderful World of Slapstick

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