Speak Easily
Speak Easily is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd, and directed by Edward Sedgwick. The studio also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in The Passionate Plumber and What! No Beer? Keaton later used many of the physical gags he created for this film when he wrote (uncredited) gags for the Marx Brothers' A Night At The Opera.
Plot
Professor Timothy Z. Post is a shy Classics professor at Potts College, who has lived a sheltered life and has little experience of life outside of academia. Feeling that the professor should see more of the real world, his assistant tricks the professor into thinking that he has inherited $750,000, allowing the professor to leave academia and see the world.
More details
| director | Edward Sedgwick |
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| editor | William LeVanway |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | ancient greece bad influence broadway broadway theatre classic inherit leading lady musical revue new york city real world shelter spoil think |
| producer | Buster Keaton |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | dance |