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The Life and Times of Joe Keaton
Joe Keaton's parents were a failed vaudeville act or not even vaudevilles, a failed medicine show touring act. He was really getting by because they had no real skills to offer. And he eventually ends up wanting to go to California in search of performance like he wants to perform. But he ends up back in Oklahoma meets Myra Cutler, who is Buster's mother and they start performing together. They joined a medicine show, basically. It was basically the primetime television of its day where he's like, here's just a collection of different things that people could buy.
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