Speak Easily (1932)

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Directed by

Edward Sedgwick

Starring (View all)

Buster Keaton
Professor Post

Jimmy Durante
James

Ruth Selwyn
Pansy Peets

Thelma Todd
Eleanor Espere

Hedda Hopper
Mrs. Peets

William Pawley
Griffo

Sidney Toler
Stage Director

Lawrence Grant
Dr. Bolton

Written by

Clarence Budington Kelland
(from the story by)

Ralph Spence

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Description: Buster Keaton plays a naive academic, Professor Post, who thinks that he has inherited a windfall. Hoping to use his newfound wealth to promote the arts, Post gets mixed up with a theater group, headed by Jimmy the piano player (Jimmy Durante). Enthralled by the group's free-spirited leading lady Eleanor Espere (Thelma Todd), the professor agrees to finance their musical, assuming it will be presented in the classical tradition. When he learns that he's bought into just another girlie show, Post walks on stage to apologize to the opening-night audience, only to become the hit of the show himself. Post saves the musical from disa ... (more)

Release date: 13 August 1932
UPC: 089218443397

Tags: Comedy (2), Buster Keaton (1), 1930s (1), Slapstick (1), 1932 (1), Thelma Todd (1), MGM Studios (1)

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