In The Movies
Speaks can be described as a "one-hit wonder", but his most famous work was included in the soundtrack of several films:
- Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats (1929) (sung by Paul Tremaine)
- Metro Movietone Revue (1929/II) (sung by George Dewey Washington)
- Mandalay (1934) (played during opening credits) (not to be confused with The Road to Mandalay, a 1926 film)
- China Seas (1935) (variation played as part of the score during the opening credits and at the end)
- Metropolitan (1935) (sung by Lawrence Tibbett with piano accompaniment by Luis Alberni (who both appeared) in the score during the end credits)
- They Met in Bombay (1941) (played several times as part of the score)
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