Speak Easily

Speak Easily is a 1932 American PreCode 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 later when he wrote uncredited gags for the Marx Brothers A Night At The Opera.

Boarding a train bound for New York City, Prof. Post encounters James Jimmy Durante, the manager of a dancing troupe that has an engagement in the backwater town of Fishs Switch. The professor becomes infatuated with one of the dancers, Pansy Peets Ruth Selwyn, and accidentally alights at Fishs Switch when attempting to learn her name. He attends a performance by the dancing troupe at the local theatre, and is impressed by their act.Feeling that the troupe should continue their act, the professor finances the troupe and takes them to perform on Broadway, but only after James insists that the act be improved to a higher standard. Posts suggestions of using inspiration from Ancient Greece are taken on board, with some minor alterations, and the show is turned into a grandiose musical revue. Although Post wishes that Pansy be the leading lady, the show is quickly turned into a starvehicle for spoiled actress Eleanor Espere Thelma Todd, who attempts to win over the professor in order to take total control over both the show and the money it is expected to earn at its debut. Pansy attempts to warn the professor of Eleanors bad influence, with mixed results. ........

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