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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

  • 1931
  • Passed
  • 1h 13m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
1.1K
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Buster Keaton and Joan Peers in Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
Screwball ComedyComedy

A man tries passing off a socially awkward fellow as a Casanova in the hopes of marrying off his would be sister-in-law.A man tries passing off a socially awkward fellow as a Casanova in the hopes of marrying off his would be sister-in-law.A man tries passing off a socially awkward fellow as a Casanova in the hopes of marrying off his would be sister-in-law.

  • Director
    • Edward Sedgwick
  • Writers
    • C.W. Bell
    • Mark Swan
    • Robert E. Hopkins
  • Stars
    • Buster Keaton
    • Charlotte Greenwood
    • Reginald Denny
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    1.1K
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    • Director
      • Edward Sedgwick
    • Writers
      • C.W. Bell
      • Mark Swan
      • Robert E. Hopkins
    • Stars
      • Buster Keaton
      • Charlotte Greenwood
      • Reginald Denny
    • 33User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins total

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    Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton
    • Reginald Irving
    Charlotte Greenwood
    Charlotte Greenwood
    • Polly Hathaway
    Reginald Denny
    Reginald Denny
    • Jeffrey Haywood
    Cliff Edwards
    Cliff Edwards
    • Bell Hop
    Dorothy Christy
    Dorothy Christy
    • Angelica Embrey
    Joan Peers
    Joan Peers
    • Nita Leslie
    Sally Eilers
    Sally Eilers
    • Virginia Embrey
    Natalie Moorhead
    Natalie Moorhead
    • Leila Crofton
    Edward Brophy
    Edward Brophy
    • Detective
    Walter Merrill
    • Frederick Leslie
    Sidney Bracey
    Sidney Bracey
    • Butler
    • (as Sidney Bracy)
    George Davis
    George Davis
    • Gardener
    • (uncredited)
    Tyrell Davis
    Tyrell Davis
    • Bertie
    • (uncredited)
    Arthur Millett
    Arthur Millett
    • Bit Role
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Edward Sedgwick
    • Writers
      • C.W. Bell
      • Mark Swan
      • Robert E. Hopkins
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    7dbborroughs

    Funny funny precode film clearly shows what a good sound comedian Buster Keaton was

    This is a great film that is very funny especially once it gets going. The premise is that an engaged couple wants to wed but can't do so until the girl's older sister does so (they don't want her to appear to be an old maid). The sister is having a hard time finding anyone to marry because she insists her husband be a great lover (and have great other things, as a sly comment as one dumped suitor comes out of the swimming pool implies). Into this madness comes Buster Keaton who is run over accidentally by the fiancé. Sensing an opportunity, the fiancé begins to spread the rumor that Keaton is a great lover. Soon not only the "old maid" sister, but every other woman in the area is pursuing Keaton.

    Keaton was a master comedian and it really shows here. I'm just floored that this, like many of his other sound films aren't better known, since Keaton really did manage to keep the laughs coming for over 50 years in the movies. This is a perfect example of the good stuff he did that most people don't know about. This is a very funny comedy full of wicked pre-code japes as well as typical Keaton style physical gags. I put this film on expecting to smile here and there and instead found myself chuckling steadily through out.

    Recommended to anyone wants to see a good screwball comedy with more than a few risqué moments.
    8Chrissie

    Worth it for the sequence at the end

    I have to agree with other commenters that this was a poor choice of films for Buster Keaton. The early part of the film is disappointing, as it provides Keaton with no opportunities to do the amazing physical stunts he's rightly famous for. I found it dismaying to see Keaton, who flipped over the rigging in "The Love Nest" and made the clotheslines his playground in "Neighbors" deflated by a half-slack garden hose.

    But the hotel sequence, in which an amazonian blonde tries to teach Keaton's pathologically girl-shy character to be a real Casanova, turns things around. "Buster Keaton" and "screen kiss" are two ideas that don't seem to go that well together, but Keaton turns the combination into something that's purely his. Like the climax of "Steamboat Bill Jr.", Keaton's character finally seizes control of a situation where he's previously been a victim of circumstance. Suddenly he figures out how this works and charges ahead in his own unorthodox, exuberantly acrobatic way. And that moment is worth waiting for.
    10SimonJack

    Wacko comedy! From the best straight face of filmdom

    Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton were the top comedy actors of early filmdom, each with his own characteristic persona. And, among all of the early and later comedians, none played a better dumb straight face role than Keaton. Not until Peter Sellers came along was there another actor who could so well mix straight face with buffoonery, slapstick, screwball antics and clever - but ever so short, lines.

    Keaton proved to be as good in the talkies as he had been in the silent movies. But for the stripping of his creative freedoms in new contracts after the advent of sound, he might have given us many more years of great comedic roles. Thankfully, recent generations are coming to see the genius and talent of this great entertainer.

    It is tempting, as some reviewers have alluded, to judge Keaton mostly on his slapstick scenarios, which were often so prominent in his best silent films. But, Keaton was so much more than falling down comedy. And he continued to show his broader genius into his first talkies, as this film shows - even as the studios kept imposing more and more strictures that would eventually relegate him to small and then bit parts. When given good scripts and a fine supporting cast with good roles, Keaton and company could make smashing comedies. This is one such film, with Reginald Denny, Charlotte Greenwood and some others helping build the comedy.

    In Parlor, Bedroom & Bath, we see Keaton at his deadpan best. Just listen, look and laugh. How anyone can watch this film and not howl during a good half dozen segments is beyond me. The film itself is wacko from the start. So, put the best wacko actor of the time in it and all you have is a great laugh vehicle to enjoy time and again.

    PB & B pokes fun at a lot of aspects and stations of life. The rich and trivial, success and workaholics, glamor and the plain, marriage and love, fidelity and infidelity - all get a little treatment with humor and slapstick. It's too bad for those few folks who may have watched this film and just don't know how to laugh. Sometimes, we have to look for the genius and great in the simple. And there's plenty of that in this film. I wish all who watch it anew the same or more laughter from the head and the heart that I have had.

    Here are some favorite lines from this film. This IMDb page for the move has many more under the Quotes section.

    Jeffrey Haywood, "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll marry Angelica myself." Virginia Embrey, "What?" Jeffrey, "Yeah, and then I'll poison her and marry you." Virginia, "Where are you going? Jeffrey, "Where am I going? To get the poison."

    Jeffrey Haywood, to Reginald Irving, "I might fix it so she could be the mother of your children." At that, Reginald faints.

    Jeffrey Haywood, "Listen, Polly, we've always been good friends, haven't we?" Polly Hathaway, "Yes. But you're scaring the friendship out of me."

    Reginald Irving, offering to pay the farmer for their ride to the hotel on his hay wagon after their car lost a wheel, "How much do I owe you?" Hay wagon driver, "Ya think two dollars would be too much?" Reginald, "Yes." Wagon driver, "Well, then give me a dollar."

    Polly Hathaway, "You have all the passion of an infuriated clam."
    7dogwater-1

    Parlour, Bedroom, Bath and Even the Lobby

    A far funnier film than I was led to believe. All Keaton fans usually hate the Metro movies, but there are delights here. Reginald Denny makes an excellent farceur and the inimitable Charlotte Greenwood is a surprisingly good match with Keaton. They have some exhausting physical scenes with each other and somehow, it clicks. Buster undergoes more punishment in these pictures than the ones he wrote and directed. It is almost as if someone at MGM decided that masochism was what made him funny. Nevertheless, he manages to shine as a timid soul who turns himself into a very enthusiastic lover. The film is "stagey" in that it keeps at times to a rendering very much like a proscenium theatre. It's fast. And fun.
    7jtyroler

    Better than expected

    Reading the other reviews and the lack of comments, I wasn't looking forward to watching this, but it was the only film I hadn't watched on a 3-DVD set of Keaton films that I've owned for some time. The set has 3 of Buster's talkies and I was more familiar with his silent classics. I really did enjoy this, although, as other reviewers said, this starts out kind of slow. It's a decent precode farce about 2 sisters, one engaged to a man who wants to get married ASAP (she won't marry before her older sister so she won't be known as an 'old maid'), and her older sister who is attracted to bad boys.

    Buster Keaton starts out nailing up signs on 'telegraph' poles and fences and while distracted watching the older sister on the diving board of the pool at Keaton's actual home, walks in front of a moving car and is hit. Keaton plays a timid, girl shy character (the kind of role that MGM often put him in, which was nothing like him in real life, judging from the number of affairs he was supposedly having around that time) who is supposed to play the part of a ladies' man.

    The second half that takes place in a hotel is much better than the slower first half. This is where Buster goes from being almost scared of women to being sexually aggressive within a few hours. It's during this part of the movie where Buster gets to show off some of his physical comedy that he's probably best known for, although I think Buster was better off at showing absurd situations - and this movie is pretty much just that.

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    • Trivia
      Filmed in Buster Keaton's own house.
    • Goofs
      After Reggie throws the gun through the closed hotel window, he opens it and looks straight down to see the policeman on the sidewalk who picked up the gun. The view of the sidewalk is unobstructed. A moment later, Reggie climbs out the same window onto a fire escape that was not there in the previous view.
    • Quotes

      Angelica Embrey: The more I see of men, the more I love my dog.

    • Connections
      Alternate-language version of Casanova wider Willen (1931)
    • Soundtracks
      Step On It
      (uncredited)

      Music by Mel Kaufman

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    • Release date
      • February 28, 1931 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Parlor Bedroom and Bath
    • Filming locations
      • Buster Keaton Villa - 1018 Pamela Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 13m(73 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White

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