It is a far from traditional proposal. Buster Keaton takes a breath in the midst of being chased by his lumbering boss, Joe Roberts, pops down on one knee, takes hold of Virginia Fox’s hand and gazes up at her, and says: “Je ne serai pas toujours forgeron et ce-jour-la me permettrez-vous …” (I won’t always be a blacksmith, and today, I would like to ask …) What? He is cruelly cut off as a moment later, her stern-looking father appears and there is no time for an answer, in any language. It’s not much of a love scene, perhaps, but this snippet from a recently unearthed French print of Keaton’s The Blacksmith offers far more romance than the original.
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