Anecdote of the Week: Buster Keaton Confronts Disaster (and Joe Schenck)
From an interview with Buster Keaton in Sight and Sound, Winter 1965/66:
My original situation in [Steamboat Bill, Jr.] was a flood. But my so-called producer on that film was Joe Schenck...Schenck was supposed to be my producer but he never knew when or what I was shooting. He just turned me loose.
Well, the publicity man on Steamboat Bill goes to Schenc…