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Free and Easy is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick released in USA on 22 march 1930 with Buster Keaton
Free and Easy (1930)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 22 march 1930
Length 1h32
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
OriginUSA
Themes Films about television
Rating55%
For the 1941 MGM film of the same name, see Free and Easy (1941 film).
Free and Easy is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton. It was Keaton's first starring talkie vehicle.
Synopsis
When small-town girl Elvira Plunkett (Anita Page) wins a contest that sends her to Hollywood for a screen test at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), she is accompanied by her overbearing mother (Trixie Friganza) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton), a gas-station attendant who goes along as Elvira's manager. Elmer is secretly in love with Elvira, but on the train they meet MGM contract actor Larry Mitchell (Robert Montgomery), who falls for her as well, and has the connections to make her a star.Actors
Buster Keaton
(Elmer)
Anita Page
(Elvira)
Dorothy Sebastian
(Cave Scene)
David Burton
(Himself)
Trixie Friganza
(Ma)
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