Eleanor Keaton was "Buster" Keaton's third wife. Eleanor was 18 years of age and a dancer at MGM; keen to learn how to play bridge she was taken to a house "where they played bridge every day and there was a good teacher". The house was Buster Keaton's and he was her good teacher. It was several months before a romance began and all because Eleanor shouted in response to heckling by a fellow card player, Buster looked up from his cards and really noticed her for the first time. Nearly two years after they first met Eleanor asked Buster to marry her and on May 29th 1940 they were married. Buster was 44 and she was 21. None of their friends thought it would last and they actually tried to talk her out of marrying him. Luckily they didn't and Buster and Eleanor were happily married for nearly 26 years. For the rest of his life Buster and Eleanor were rarely far from each other and she accompanied him on set whilst he worked and even appeared on stage with him. Eleanor worked hard to help Buster restore his place in film history and it could be said that if she did not come along we would not have seen many of the wonderful Buster Keaton movies that we see today. Eleanor died in Oct 1998 of Lung Cancer the same disease that had killed her husband in 1966.
Eleanor Keaton was "Buster" Keaton's third wife. Eleanor was 18 years of age and a dancer at MGM; keen to learn how to play bridge she was taken to a house "where they played bridge every day and there was a good teacher". The house was Buster Keaton's and he was her good teacher. It was several months before a romance began and all because Eleanor shouted in response to heckling by a fellow card player, Buster looked up from his cards and really noticed her for the first time. Nearly two years after they first met Eleanor asked Buster to marry her and on May 29th 1940 they were married. Buster was 44 and she was 21. None of their friends thought it would last and they actually tried to talk her out of marrying him. Luckily they didn't and Buster and Eleanor were happily married for nearly 26 years. For the rest of his life Buster and Eleanor were rarely far from each other and she accompanied him on set whilst he worked and even appeared on stage with him. Eleanor worked hard to help Buster restore his place in film history and it could be said that if she did not come along we would not have seen many of the wonderful Buster Keaton movies that we see today. Eleanor died in Oct 1998 of Lung Cancer the same disease that had killed her husband in 1966.
