Buster Keaton and Thelma Todd drunk in "Speak Easily"

Professor Timoleon Post (Buster Keaton) and Eleanor Espere (Thelma Todd) get drunk at Eleanor's flat in Speak Easily (1932).

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• buster
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• thelma
• todd

[amazmace]

Oh, come on. Buster should have went for it. I would have. Thelma was hot.

[prettyparisian]

Buster Keaton is very handsome =0 love him and he's sooooooo funny, he's juts effortlessly funny and silly in everything he does. I love it when he fell off the couch and I loved his coat when he dropped it on the floor. xx

[TheHarlean]

@rentatrip1 I am reading that book, it is very interesting.

[rentatrip1]

@TheBookWorm1718 -

I have the hard cover book- Hot Toddy (Thelma Todd): The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder-available on paperback also - on AMAZON- for less than $5.oo - she had an affair with gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, She was found dead in her car in the garage of her PCH apartment - Dec 16th 1935- Obvious situation of the corpse points to FoulPlay ! not accidental by any means - read the BOOK !

[TheBookWorm1718]

@rentatrip1 I remember reading that director Roland West was supposed to be somehow involved in the killing, that either he confessed to doing it, or somebody he knew did, but I haven't heard the story in several years.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@bibi5027 Indeeeeed, and she tried to have him arrested for kidnapping when he took his sons on a trip. She treated him like dirt and I hope she on a slow boat to hell. Though it would seem all worked out for Buster in the end, as soon as his oldest boy got his driver's license he drove both of them right over to his house to see him, and when they were grown up and had their own kids they kept in good contact with him.

[eMuse5]

I'm not entirely convinced that the two of them aren't actually drunk...now, as a rule actors playing "drunk" scenes are guaranteed to make me laugh, but in this case seeing Buster on film like this during the worst period of his life is rather depressing!

[bibi5027]

I am happy he found Eleanor ,cuse his first wife and her family treated him horrible,what I never will be understand Buster was lovable kind of person..but for his wife he was probably just fabricate for money and then she kicked him aside like dog...he couldnt see his sons,she was really b..itch,.

[NottheFacePlease]

Huh, I never knew he had such deep voice.

[buzzclick500]

"Cut!! It's a wrap! Let's get it printed and shipped!!" ;])

[beyoncetyratina]

It took them quite awhile to fall off the couch... they must've been real drunk weren't they? Lol, I love Thelma Todd's laugh. Thelma is especially funny at 2:45. Buster was amazing.

[Lecy1982]

That was funny! Thelma Todd, lucky woman, got to kiss Buster! I wouldn't doubt if Buster was really buzzed during that scene, since he was drinking heavily during this period and the crap with his first divorce.