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Casanova wider Willen, the 1931 Edward Brophy romantic slapstick comedy starring Buster Keaton, Francoise Rosay, Paul Morgan, Leni Stengel, and Egon von Jordan. Note that this is the German language version of "Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath" (see below). This movie was filmed in three languages with three different casts (with the exception of Buster Keaton, who played the lead in each) and with three different titles, "Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath" (English version), "Casanova wider Willen" (German version), and "Buster se marie" (French version). In the end of the silent era, studios made fortunes distributing their best movies all over the world, because it was a simple matter to change the "inter-titles" (which appeared on screen telling what the characters were saying) into many other languages, which meant that a popular U.S. movie played all over the world, as did German movies, French movies, etc. But when sound began, this worldwide distribution was crippled! The studios decided to start filming their best movies in more than one language, and this occurred in many 1931 movies, the most famous being Dracula. It had both an English language version and a Spanish language version, with entirely different casts and directors, and the U.S. actors worked in the daytime, and the Spanish actors worked at night! In the case of movies where the star was very important to the movie (like Laurel & Hardy or Buster Keaton), that star would speak their lines phonetically, but the rest of the cast would be different for each language. On a few very major productions, the movies were filmed in THREE languages with three different casts and directors! This continued into 1932 and 1933, but it added hugely to production costs, and studios finally decided that dubbing made more sense, and the practice completely vanished.
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Important Added Info: Note that this is one of a remarkable collection of 25 Buster Keaton Danish programs (16 from the 1920s and 9 from the 1930s) we have been consigned (and these are ALL of those programs we were consigned). These programs are beyond rare! To give you a sense of just how rare they are, we have previously auctioned many thousands of Danish programs, and we have NEVER before auctioned even one Danish program from ANY Buster Keaton movie from the 1920s or 1930s! So this is a wonderful opportunity to obtain one or more Danish programs from Buster Keaton movies of the 1920s and 1930s, and it may be many years before we auction even one more such program! Also note that we have pictured the front and back covers and an interior 2-page spread from this program.

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