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Brewster’s Millions
(1921) American
B&W : Six reels / 5502 feet
Directed by Joseph Henabery

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle [Monte Brewster], Betty Ross Clark (Betty Ross Clarke) [Peggy], Fred W. Huntley [Mr. Brewster], Marian Skinner [Mrs. Brewster], James Corrigan [Mr. Ingraham], Jean Acker [Barbara Drew], Charles Ogle [Colonel Drew], Neely Edwards [MacLeod], William Boyd [Harrison], L.J. McCarthy [Ellis], Parker J. McConnell [Pettingill], John MacFarland [Blake], Walter A. Coughlin

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Walter Woods, from the play adaptation Brewster’s Millions by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley adapted from the novel Brewster’s Millions by George Barr McCutcheon. Production supervision by Frank E. Woods. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Assistant director, Dick Johnston. Cinematography by Karl Brown. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 4 January 1921 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Released January 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Color-tinted and color-toned. / The film’s production dated from 29 July 1920 through 20 October 1920. Paramount production number 355. The novel was previously filmed as Brewster’s Millions (1914). The novel was subsequently filmed as Miss Brewster’s Millions (1926).

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.0592.

Survival Status: (unknown)

Listing updated: 20 August 2009.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0477; AFI-F2 n. F2.0592; Edelman-Baseball p. 148; Edmonds-Arbuckle pp. 118, 146g, 267; Sweeney-Coming p. 28; Weaver-Twenty p. 27.