Free and Easy

Free and Easy

1930 | 1h 33m | Comedy, Musical | TV-G

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Brief Synopsis

A small-town beauty contest winner heads to Hollywood for a screen test, accompanied by a well-meaning gas station attendant. Determined to protect her from a movie star's advances, he creates chaos at the studio, while unexpected romance and fame await.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Edward Sedgwick

CAST

Buster Keaton

Anita Page

Trixie Friganza

Robert Montgomery

Fred Niblo

PRODUCERS

Edward Sedgwick

WRITERS

Richard Schayer

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03:58
Free And Easy (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Act!
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Small-town talent agent Elmer (Buster Keaton) loose on the movie lot, fouling a stunt scene with Karl Dane and Dorothy Sebastian, then a bedroom clash with John Miljan and Gwen Lee, "directed" by Lionel Barrymore, in Free And Easy, 1930.
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Free And Easy (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Elmer Butts
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The train station send-off for "Miss Gopher City" (Anita Page), her mother (Trixie Friganza), and Buster Keaton, (as bumbling manager "Elmer"), barely uttering his first on-screen lines, in Free And Easy, 1930.
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Free And Easy (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I Broke My Autograph
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Bumbling manager Elmer (Buster Keaton) has got "Miss Gopher City" (Anita Page) and her "Ma" (Trixie Friganza) to their Hollywood premiere, cameos from MGM's Jackie Coogan and William Haines ensuing, in Keaton's first talkie, Free And Easy, 1930.
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Free and Easy - The Sween Quooned -- (Movie Clip)
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Director Fred Niblo shows Buster Keaton how to make an entrance in Free and Easy (1930), Keaton's first starring talkie.

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