
Free and Easy
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A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.
- Rated
- Passed
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Released
- 1930
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1930
Storyline
A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.
Top credits
Directors
Cast
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Buster Keaton ā Elmer Butts
Anita Page ā Elvira Plunkett
Trixie Friganza ā Ma Plunkett
Robert Montgomery ā Larry Mitchell
Did you know
⢠Talkie debut for Buster Keaton.
⢠MGM stars who make cameo appearances in the film include William Haines, Lionel Barrymore, Karl Dane, Dorothy Sebastian, Gwen Lee, John Miljan, and Jackie Coogan.
⢠The three main characters of the film - Elmer Butts, and Elvira and Ma Plunkett - come to Hollywood from Gopher City, Kansas. Trixie Friganza, who plays Ma Plunkett, was in fact from Kansas. Buster Keaton, who plays Elmer Butts, was also born in Kansas.
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Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
- Color
- Black and White




















