Buster Keaton up to provide replacements, as happened to some other late-arriving divisions. During his time in uniform, he suffered an ear infection that permanently impaired his hearing. In February 1917, Keaton met Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle at the Talmadge Studios in New York City, where Arbuckle was under contract to Joseph M. Schenck. Joe Keaton disapproved of films, and Buster also had reservations about the medium. During his first meeting with Arbuckle, he asked to borrow one of the cameras to get a feel for how it worked. He took the camera back to his hotel room and dismantled and reassembled it.
Speak Easily East West Entertainment. The first ever DVD release in the UK is from Powis Square Pictures in January 2009. Speak Easily Speak Easily is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd, and directed by Edward Sedgwick. The studio also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in "The Passionate Plumber" and "What! No Beer?" Keaton later used many of the physical gags he created for this film later when he wrote (uncredited) gags for the Marx Brothers' "A Night At The Opera". Prof. Post (Buster Keaton) is a shy