Miss Brewster's Millions

Miss Brewster's Millions
Directed by Clarence G. Badger
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
Written by George Barr McCutcheon (novel)
Winchell Smith (play)
Byron Ongley (play)
Monte Brice (adaptation)
Lloyd Corrigan (writer)
Harold Shumate (writer)
Starring Bebe Daniels
Cinematography H. Kinley Martin
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • March 22, 1926 (1926-03-22)
Running time
 72 minutes;
Country United States
Language Silent

Miss Brewster's Millions (1926) is a silent film comedy produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Clarence G. Badger directed and the ever popular Bebe Daniels starred.[1][2][3] It was based on a novel by George Barr McCutcheon and a play adaptation of the same name by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley and had been filmed before in 1921 with Roscoe Arbuckle.[4]

Preservation status

This film is now considered a lost film.[5]

Cast

Plot

Polly Brewster (Daniels), a penniless Hollywood model and movie extra inherits $1 million. But her new lawyer, Tom Hancock (Baxter), informs her that she has to spend it all within 30 days to inherit $5 million more from her spiteful Uncle Ned Brewster (Sterling) who tries to prevent it from happening.

References

  1. ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
  2. ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Miss Brewster's Millions
  3. ↑ Miss Brewster's Millions at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Paramount Pictures 1926
  4. ↑ Brewster's Millions on Broadway New Amsterdam and Hudson Theatres, beginning Dec. 31, 1906; IBDb.com
  5. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog

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