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Speak Easily [DVD] [1932]
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Format:DVD
: Program Type:Movie
: Product Name:Speak Easily [DVD] [1932]
: Studio:Film Detective
: Product Tags:DVD
: Region Code:0
Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly believes he has inherited $750,000. Hoping to use this windfall to bring the Fine Arts to the waiting world, Post gets mixed up with a two-bit theatrical troupe, headed by Jimmy the piano player (Jimmy Durante). Enchanted by the troupe's libertine leading lady Eleanor Espere (Thelma Todd), the professor agrees to finance their Broadway-bound musical, assuming it will be presented in tasteful, classical tradition. When he realizes that he's bought into just another girlie show, Post walks onstage to apologize to the opening-night audience, only to become the hit of the show himself as he becomes enmeshed in the production's special stage effects. Post's unconscious silliness saves the musical from becoming a disaster and also somehow wins him the love of Pansy Peets (Ruth Selwyn), the hometown girl he left behind. Based on a novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland, Speak Easily boasts some terrific sight gags, an abundance of hilarious repartee between the usually ill-matched Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante, and a hilarious performance by future ""Charlie Chan"" Sidney Toler as an apoplectic stage manager.~Hal Erickson
Name : Buster Keaton: Role : Prof. Timolean Zanders Post
Name : Jimmy Durante: Role : James
Name : Ruth Selwyn: Role : Pansy Peets
Name : Thelma Todd: Role : Eleanor Espere
Name : Hedda Hopper: Role : Mrs. Peets
Name : William Pawley: Role : Griffo
Name : Sidney Toler: Role : Stage Manager
Name : Lawrence Grant: Role : Dr. Bolton
Name : Henry Armetta: Role : Tony
Name : Edward S. Brophy: Role : Reno
Name : Edward Sedgwick: Role : Director
Name : Lawrence Weingarten: Role : Producer
Name : Laurence E. Johnson: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Ralph Spence: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Harold Wenstrom: Role : Cinematographer
Name : William LeVanway: Role : Editor
Name : Cedric Gibbons: Role : Art Director
Name : Clarence Budington Kelland: Role : Short Story Author
[!Program Type:Movie!] [!Product Name:Speak Easily [DVD] [1932!]] [!Studio:Film Detective!] [!Product Tags:DVD!] [!Region Code:0!] [!Buster Keaton:Prof. Timolean Zanders Post!] [!Jimmy Durante:James!] [!Ruth Selwyn:Pansy Peets!] [!Thelma Todd:Eleanor Espere!] [!Hedda Hopper:Mrs. Peets!] [!William Pawley:Griffo!] [!Sidney Toler:Stage Manager!] [!Lawrence Grant:Dr. Bolton!] [!Henry Armetta:Tony!] [!Edward S. Brophy:Reno!] [!Edward Sedgwick:Director!] [!Lawrence Weingarten:Producer!] [!Laurence E. Johnson:Screenwriter!] [!Ralph Spence:Screenwriter!] [!Harold Wenstrom:Cinematographer!] [!William LeVanway:Editor!] [!Cedric Gibbons:Art Director!] [!Clarence Budington Kelland:Short Story Author!]
: Program Type:Movie
: Product Name:Speak Easily [DVD] [1932]
: Studio:Film Detective
: Product Tags:DVD
: Region Code:0
Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly believes he has inherited $750,000. Hoping to use this windfall to bring the Fine Arts to the waiting world, Post gets mixed up with a two-bit theatrical troupe, headed by Jimmy the piano player (Jimmy Durante). Enchanted by the troupe's libertine leading lady Eleanor Espere (Thelma Todd), the professor agrees to finance their Broadway-bound musical, assuming it will be presented in tasteful, classical tradition. When he realizes that he's bought into just another girlie show, Post walks onstage to apologize to the opening-night audience, only to become the hit of the show himself as he becomes enmeshed in the production's special stage effects. Post's unconscious silliness saves the musical from becoming a disaster and also somehow wins him the love of Pansy Peets (Ruth Selwyn), the hometown girl he left behind. Based on a novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland, Speak Easily boasts some terrific sight gags, an abundance of hilarious repartee between the usually ill-matched Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante, and a hilarious performance by future ""Charlie Chan"" Sidney Toler as an apoplectic stage manager.~Hal Erickson
Name : Buster Keaton: Role : Prof. Timolean Zanders Post
Name : Jimmy Durante: Role : James
Name : Ruth Selwyn: Role : Pansy Peets
Name : Thelma Todd: Role : Eleanor Espere
Name : Hedda Hopper: Role : Mrs. Peets
Name : William Pawley: Role : Griffo
Name : Sidney Toler: Role : Stage Manager
Name : Lawrence Grant: Role : Dr. Bolton
Name : Henry Armetta: Role : Tony
Name : Edward S. Brophy: Role : Reno
Name : Edward Sedgwick: Role : Director
Name : Lawrence Weingarten: Role : Producer
Name : Laurence E. Johnson: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Ralph Spence: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Harold Wenstrom: Role : Cinematographer
Name : William LeVanway: Role : Editor
Name : Cedric Gibbons: Role : Art Director
Name : Clarence Budington Kelland: Role : Short Story Author
[!Program Type:Movie!] [!Product Name:Speak Easily [DVD] [1932!]] [!Studio:Film Detective!] [!Product Tags:DVD!] [!Region Code:0!] [!Buster Keaton:Prof. Timolean Zanders Post!] [!Jimmy Durante:James!] [!Ruth Selwyn:Pansy Peets!] [!Thelma Todd:Eleanor Espere!] [!Hedda Hopper:Mrs. Peets!] [!William Pawley:Griffo!] [!Sidney Toler:Stage Manager!] [!Lawrence Grant:Dr. Bolton!] [!Henry Armetta:Tony!] [!Edward S. Brophy:Reno!] [!Edward Sedgwick:Director!] [!Lawrence Weingarten:Producer!] [!Laurence E. Johnson:Screenwriter!] [!Ralph Spence:Screenwriter!] [!Harold Wenstrom:Cinematographer!] [!William LeVanway:Editor!] [!Cedric Gibbons:Art Director!] [!Clarence Budington Kelland:Short Story Author!]
