Seeing Stars
About Seeing Stars
Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan sit at a banquet table with Thomas Ince. Buster Keaton, as a waiter, serves them. Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge are also in the reel. Most of it was filmed at a dinner, not on a story stage.
Cast & crew
More about Seeing Stars
The Independent Screen Artists’ Guild, headed by Chaplin and Norma Talmadge, and Associated First National Pictures produced this eight-minute one-reel trailer. Most of it was shot at the guild’s inaugural banquet at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on 15 December 1921. A few shots come from other films, including frames of Keaton’s The Balloonatic.
Themes
Music
Silent.
Notes
- Chaplin and Keaton share the screen here and, later, in Limelight (1952). Wikipedia calls these the only two times they appear together.
- Norma and Constance Talmadge were Keaton’s sisters-in-law.
- Contemporary reports listed the guild’s organizers as including Chaplin, the Talmadges, Mack Sennett, Keaton, Sol Lesser, Joseph M. Schenck, Mabel Normand, Thomas H. Ince, Richard Barthelmess, Jackie Coogan, Louis B. Mayer, and King Vidor, among others.
- No director is named on the Wikipedia page.
Scenes
- Keaton, in a waiter’s clothes, serves Chaplin, Coogan, and Ince at the banquet table.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-seeing-stars)
- DVD, Buster Keaton: The Short Films Collection (three discs)