Buster Keaton – Norman Studios

The True History that Inspired Buster Keaton’s “The General”

January 18, 2016 by wpnorman

by Christina Kimble Some people have two great loves- their wife and their car; their husband and their spa days; their guitar and their friends. For character Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton), who plays a train engineer in the 1926 film The General, love was being with his fiancée Annabelle Lee and his locomotive, The General. … [Read more…]

Four Legged Valor

April 9, 2015 by wpnorman

by Christina Kimble Long before Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, Old Yeller and Petey commanded film and TV audiences, one talented pit bull became a star, as evidenced by a screen credit on the Keystone payroll at about $150 week – the monetary equivalent of roughly $3,500 today, in the early 1900s. Luke the Dog, as … [Read more…]