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Brewster’s Millions
(1914) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel (Oscar Apfel)

Cast: Edward Abeles [Robert Brewster / Monty Brewster], Winifred Kingston [Peggy Gray], Joseph Singleton [Edwin Peter Brewster], Sydney Dean [Jonas Sedgwick], Miss Bartholomew [Louise Sedgwick], Mabel Van Buren [Mrs. Gray], Dick La Reno [Swearengen Jones / the sheik], Baby De Rue [Monty Brewster, age 5], Bernadine Zuber [Barbara Drew], Monroe Salisbury [Nopper Harrison], Maurine Rasmussen [Trixie]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed on State Rights basis. / From the play adaptation Brewster’s Millions by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley of the novel Brewster’s Millions by George Barr McCutcheon. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. / Released 15 April 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The novel was subsequently filmed as Brewster’s Millions (1921).

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0477.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Listing updated: 20 August 2009.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0477; Edelman-Baseball p. 148; Edmonds-Arbuckle p. 267; Spehr-American p. 4; Tarbox-Lost p. 206 : ClasIm-240 p. 45.