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SPEAK EASILY is a 1932 comedy with Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd.
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 later when he wrote (uncredited) gags for the Marx Brothers' A Night At The Opera.
A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical.
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Writers: Clarence Budington Kelland (from the story by), Ralph Spence (dialogue continuity)
Stars: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn
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A Blog For Thelma Todd Thelma Todd was a star of silent movies and later the talkies. She is remembered as much today for her mysterious death as she is for her films. In this blog, we take a look at Thelma Todd, her movies, and various commentaries.
Showing posts with label Speak Easily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speak Easily. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2019
SPEAK EASILY Photos
SPEAK EASILY is a 1932 comedy with Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd.
Buster Keaton and Thelma Todd.
Thelma Todd.
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Friday, November 16, 2018
Buster Keaton Ads
Newspaper ads for SPEAK EASILY and WHAT, NO BEER? Some of the ads for SPEAK EASILY emphasized Thelma Todd, but in the film she played the "other woman" and wasn't as important to Keaton's character as Pansy Peets ( Ruth Selwyn ).
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Thursday, November 8, 2018
Thelma Todd Sings In The Movies
Posted by John Muyres in the Thelma Todd Fan Group on facebook:
Films that Thelma sings at least part of a song:
Bohemian Girl (Heart of a Gypsy) 1936*
Sing Sister Sing (Short) (I Wake Up with a Song - uncredited)
1935
Cockeyed Cavaliers (Dilly Dally - uncredited) 1934
Hips, Hips, Hooray! (Keep On Doin' What You're Doin' -
uncredited) 1934
Sitting Pretty (You're Such a Comfort to Me) 1933
Horse Feathers ( sings a scale for Chico ) 1932
Speak Easily (Rock-a-Bye Baby - uncredited) 1932Let's Do Things (Them There Eyes) 1931
Hurdy Gurdy 1929
*Thelma Todd's singing in this movie was dubbed.
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Recordings that Thelma Todd made that were never released. They recorded for an hour and 15 minutes for 3 songs.
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Monday, October 23, 2017
Buster Keaton And Studio Equiptment
Buster Keaton and friends stand in front of studio lighting equipment in a publicity photo for SPEAK EASILY.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Buster Keaton Photos
OH DOCTOR! Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton as Keystone Kops. Not made at Keystone.
Buster Keaton and Anita Page.
Buster Keaton and friends in SPEAK EASILY
Buster Keaton with Dorothy Appleby and Elsie Ames in THE TAMING OF THE SNOOD ( 1940 ). They were two of the actresses he made the most movies with in the sound era.
Jess Barker, Ginny Simms, Red Skelton, Edna Skelton, and Buster Keaton during the cake cutting ceremony on St. Patrick's Day at the Hollywood Canteen.
Buster Keaton with Audrey Totter. 1949.
Rhonda Fleming meets the subject of The Buster Keaton Story (1957).
Buster Keaton and Ann Blyth in a publicity photo for THE BUSTER KEATON STORY.
Buster Keaton and Bobbi Shaw in THE PAJAMA PARTY ( 1964 ). Bobbi Shaw was one of the actresses who worked with Buster Keaton most often during the sound era.
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Monday, October 16, 2017
SPEAK EASILY Photos
Thelma Todd, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton, and Hedda Hopper in a publicity photo for SPEAK EASILY ( 1932 ). This photo differs from the scene in the actual movie, which was frequently the case, as these stills were shot separately.
Thelma Todd and Buster Keaton in a publicity photo for SPEAK EASILY ( 1932 ).
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SPEAK EASILY
Buster Keaton, Thelma Todd, and Jimmy Durante play cards in a publicity photo for SPEAK EASILY ( 1932 ).
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Monday, July 24, 2017
FILM FUN Oct. 1932
Fan magazine features movie star photos with gag captions. There are a couple of pictures of Thelma Todd in there.
Caption appears to be "The girl who shortened her dress just to please her boy friend, narrates Thelma, was certainly the type who'd go to any length to please the one she loved."
Paulette Goddard on the right.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
SPEAK EASILY
Thelma Todd, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton, and Hedda Hopper in a publicity photo for SPEAK EASILY. There is no such scene in the actual movie.
Publicity claimed that Hedda Hopper in this movie dressed like Elsie Janis. I wouldn't know.
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Thursday, December 3, 2015
Thelma Todd With Buster Keaton And Jimmy Durante In SPEAK EASILY
Thelma Todd in a publicity photo for the 1932 MGM movie SPEAK EASILY.
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Monday, August 31, 2015
Thelma Todd And Buster Keaton Photo
From the Thelma Todd page on facebook.
Thelma Todd & Buster Keaton for Speak Easily (1932).
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Saturday, August 1, 2015
SPEAK EASILY Photo
Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd in a publicity photo for the 1932 MGM movie SPEAK EASILY.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
SPEAK EASILY Photo
From the Laurel And Hardy Archive on facebook.
SPEAK EASILY
THELMA TODD as "Eleanor Espere" with BUSTER KEATON and SIDNEY TOLER
1932
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Monday, April 20, 2015
SPEAK EASILY Photo
From the Laurel And Hardy Archive on facebook.
SPEAK EASILY
Thelma Todd with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante
1932
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Monday, April 13, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
SILVER SCREEN October 1932
The October 1932 issue of SILVER SCREEN has Marlene Dietrich on the cover.
On the left are Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, and on the right is Thelma Todd.
Thelma Todd got a lot of publicity out of SPEAK EASILY.
Bette Davis was from Massachusetts like Thelma Todd; they also both seem to have been into numerology. A number of movie stars were said to have been involved in the occult.
Left, silent star Douglas Fairbanks in one of his talkies. Right, Joan Bennett and Claudette Colbert early in their careers.
Jimmy Durante was also in the cast of THE PHANTOM PRESIDENT.
The Our Gang kids ride a horse. Another time they built their own fire engine.
On the lower left is an item about Harpo Marx that is related to HORSEFEATHERS.
That's all, folks!
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