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Speak Easily is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick released in USA on 13 august 1932 with Buster Keaton
Speak Easily (1932)
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Add to a movie listSpeak 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 later when he wrote (uncredited) gags for the Marx Brothers' A Night At The Opera.
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Prof. Post (Buster Keaton) 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.Actors
Buster Keaton
(Professor Post)
Jimmy Durante
(James)
Thelma Todd
(Eleanor Espere)
Hedda Hopper
(Mrs. Peets)
Sidney Toler
(Stage Director)
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