Natalie Talmadge

Natalie Talmadge was an American silent film actress born on April 29, 1896. She was best known as the wife of Buster Keaton, and sister of her movie star siblings Norma and Constance Talmadge. She retired from acting in 1923. She appeared in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), The Passion Flower (1921) with her sister Norma, and Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality (1923), her final film appearance. Talmadge married Buster Keaton on May 31, 1921. She proposed to him in a letter in January of that year by saying, "I am alone now with Mother. If you still care for me just send for me." Keaton went east from Hollywood by train and married her. bTheir marriage resulted in two sons, Talmadge spent prodigious amounts on clothes and the Keatons lived in ever more elaborate Beverly Hills homes. After the birth of their second son Talmadge decided not to have any more children, resulting in the couple staying in separate rooms. Keaton was accepting of this, and the Talmadges agreed that he should keep any affairs discreet. Late in the marriage, Keaton's career began to suffer after his contract with Schenck was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and in the early '30s he began to struggle with alcoholism and become more open about his affairs with other women. Following the much-publicized divorce in 1932, Talmadge legally changed their boys' names to Talmadge and denied them any contact with their father. She became involved with the actor Larry Kent. They lived together for a while in a house bought for her by her sister Constance after the famous Italian villa mansion which Keaton had built for her had been sold in 1933 but the romance did not last. She never remarried, and in her solitary existence also developed a drinking problem in addition to chain smoking. Talmadge carried a vengeful hatred of her husband for the rest of her life and would not allow him to be mentioned in her presence. This eventually became a running joke in the family to the point where her grandchildren would often amuse themselves by saying Keaton's name just to enrage her. Natalie Talmadge was in frail health during her final years and was a resident of the Santa Monica Convalescent Home. She died of heart failure on June 19, 1969 at Santa Monica Hospital.

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