Jon Mirsalis on Piano Spite Marriage is one of the most neglected of Keaton's films. The reputation that it was inferior to its predecessors because it marked a period during which Keaton, at MGM, was not his own master, was reversed with the film's revival in the early seventies. Keaton plays Elmer Edgemont, pants presser, who haunts a Broadway theater for glimpses of his true love, the actress Trilby Drew (Dorothy Sebastian). When she is jilted by her fiancé, Drew draws the willing Elmer into a marriage for spite; only on his wedding night does he realize his true position. A marvelous foil for Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian is especially memorable in the famous bedroom scene as an inert and inebriated bride impervious to Keaton's ingenious machinations to get her into bed. Another great sequence involves Elmer's stage debut, in which he turns a Civil War drama into a vaudevillian comic-disaster.