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Free and Easy
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Free and Easy is a 1930 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick, starring Buster Keaton, Anita Page, and Robert Montgomery.Elvira Plunkett (Page), beauty queen and the pride of Gopher City, Kansas, wins a contest and goes off to Hollywood to become an actress. With her is her overbearing stage mom (Trixie Friganza) and her bumbling friend and manager, Elmer J. Butts (Keaton). On the train to Hollywood, they meet a Hollywood movie star, Larry Mitchell (Montgomery) who is enchanted with the lovely Elvira. This is greatly upsetting to Elmer, who loves Elvira, although she doesn't know it.Elvira actually isn't all that interested in being a movie actress, but Larry gets her into MGM. More surprisingly, he eventually gets Elmer a movie contract, despite Elmer horribly botching his lines in his first screen test. Eventualy, Elmer becomes a movie star of his own—but will he win Elvira's hand?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Free and Easy was Keaton's talking film debut. It actually did well at the box office, even though MGM had little idea of how to translate Keaton's talent to talking pictures. However, in hindsight it's seen as the beginning of Keaton's disastrous career slide that saw him eventually fired from MGM in 1933, with his starring film career over for good.There was a Spanish-language remake, Estrellados, that was shot immediately after this one, as was common practice for a little while in the early talkie days. Keaton learned his part phonetically. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: "Free and Easy" is a musical number Elmer performs in towards the end. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Several MGM stars and directors make cameos—Jackie Coogan, William Haines, Cecil B. DeMille, Dorothy Sebastian, Karl Dane, and Lionel Barrymore. Part of the Harsher in Hindsight nature of this film is how many careers went south right after this movie. William Haines, who was gay, was soon canned by MGM after he refused to marry The Beard; he spent the rest of his life as an interior decorator. Karl Dane was fired by MGM not long after this due to his thick Danish accent; he was unemployed and completely broke by the time he killed himself in 1934. | |
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Bedlah Babe | |
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Bedlah Babe: Elmer's film seems to have some vaguely Arab setting, so Mimi, the girl he's paired up with, is dressed this way. | |
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Remake Cameo | |
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Remake Cameo: Page and Montgomery have cameos as themselves in Estrellados. | |
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Oblivious to Love | |
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Oblivious to Love: Elvira never does catch on that Elmer is in love with her. | |
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Stage Mom | |
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Stage Mom: Domineering Ma Plunkett, determined to make her daughter a movie star when Elvira isn't that interested. | |
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Repeat After Me | |
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Repeat After Me: A long sequence between Elmer and Fred Niblo, in which Niblo's instructions—"Listen, say it after me, The queen has swooned"—result in this trope. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Elmer doesn't get the girl, and is left Alone in a Crowd on the film set. | |
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Just Friends | |
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Just Friends: Elmer and Elvira, much to his displeasure. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
| Free and Easy / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: Elmer never can bring himself to say that he loves Elvira, despite having multiple chances to do so. This eventually ends with him losing her. | |
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Grievous Bottley Harm | |
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Grievous Bottley Harm: Ma Plunkett crashes a vase over Larry's head after being brought to Larry's attempted seduction of Elvira. | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: After getting hired as a comedy star, Elmer tries to confess his feelings to Elvira. But since he Cannot Spit It Out he resorts to awkward circumlocutions—"What would you say if a certain movie star proposed to you?"—and Elvira thinks that Elmer is being The Matchmaker on Larry's behalf. | |
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Plunger Detonator | |
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Plunger Detonator: In use on Karl Dane and Dorothy Sebastian's film set; Elmer puts his foot on it and blows up the charge, ruining the shot. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: Elmer, as Elvira accepts Larry's proposal. This is a first in the Buster Keaton filmography, as he always got the girl in his silent days, even if he didn't seem particularly interested in the girl. | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
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Ladykiller in Love: Larry. After his attempt at sex with Elvira goes awry, he's embarrassed, and he pursues her more sincerely. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Fred Niblo, a real MGM director, has a supporting part as Fred Niblo, an MGM director who is driven to distraction by Elmer's bumbling incompetence as a performer. | |
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Love Triangle | |
| Free and Easy / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Love Triangle: Elmer and Larry, rivals for Elvira. | |
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Embarrassing Last Name | |
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Embarrassing Last Name: Elmer Butts. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Elmer is a bumbling dimwit, ruining multiple film shoots, unable to understand instructions to recite a single line of dialogue. One of the reasons this film is unpopular among latter-day Keaton fans is his dumb character here contrasting poorly with the can-do problem solvers of his silent film days. | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": Keaton, as Elmer, being hopelessly incompetent as a dramatic actor. Eventually he gets hired as a comedy star. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: "I suppose you make violent love to every girl you meet." | |
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Embarrassing Last Name / int_462f52b3 | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations / int_462f52b3 | |
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Repeat After Me / int_462f52b3 |
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