Speak Easily

1932
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1h 22m

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Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd in Speak Easily (1932)

A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical.A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical.A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical.

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Buster Keaton

Professor Timothy Z. Post

Jimmy Durante

James Dodge

Ruth Selwyn

Pansy Peets

Thelma Todd

Eleanor Espere

Hedda Hopper

Mrs. Peets

William Pawley

Griffo

Sidney Toler

Stage Director

Lawrence Grant

Dr. Bolton

Henry Armetta

Tony

Edward Brophy

Reno

Loretta Andrews

Chorus Girl
(uncredited)

Oscar Apfel

Lawyer's Representative
(uncredited)

Reginald Barlow

Billington
(uncredited)

Jack Baxley

Tom - Sheriff's Deputy
(uncredited)

Sidney Bracey

Jenkins
(uncredited)

Jim Farley

Station Agent
(uncredited)

DeWitt Jennings

Sheriff of Lincoln County
(uncredited)

Fred Kelsey

Process Server
(uncredited)

Director
- Edward Sedgwick
Writer
- Clarence Budington Kelland
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Trivia
Second of three films in MGM's pairing of Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante as a comedy team. The other pictures were The Passionate Plumber (1932) and What-No Beer? (1933).

Goofs
While Professor Post (Buster Keaton) is dragged by the train, clutching his luggage, his hat flies off and he is unable to grab it. In the next shot, his hat is once again firmly on his head.

Quotes
Eleanor Espere: Tell me, Timmy. Have you ever seriously thought of marriage?
Professor Post: Yes... that's why I'm single.

Connections
Featured in That's Entertainment! (1974)

Soundtracks
Good Times Are Here Again
(1932) (uncredited)
Music by David Snell and Charles Maxwell
Lyrics by Samuel Marx
In the score during the opening credits and at the end
Played on piano by Jimmy Durante and sung by the chorus at the opera house
Played often in the score

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Delightful movie, a classic gem

Despite what other users have said about this movie, I found it delightful and very funny. Buster Keaton plays a college professor who thinks he has become a rich man. He decides to invest money in a bad show because he likes one of the girls in the show, and he takes the show to Broadway. Buster Keaton has a very nice speaking voice, and this is the first "talkie" of his that I have seen. Of note also in the film is Thelma Todd. She plays a golddigger, but her performance is very funny and holds up today just as well as it did then. The scene where she and Keaton get drunk I found hysterical.