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A Little Brother of the Rich
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Otis Turner

Cast: Hobart Bosworth [Henry Learnington], Jane Novak [Sylvia Castle], Hobart Henley [Paul Potter], Maud George (Maude George) [Muriel Evers], Albert MacQuarrie [Muriel’s husband], Carl Von Schiller [Carl Wilmerding], William Clark [Jim Ellis], Edmond Brown, Walter Belasco, Jane Bernoudy, Bob Vernon

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [A Broadway Universal Feature]. / Scenario by Otis Turner and Hobart Bosworth, from the novel A Little Brother of the Rich by Joseph Medill Patterson. Cinematography by Philip E. Rosen (Phil Rosen). / © 26 August 1915 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP6201]. Released 6 September 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was subsequently filmed as A Little Brother of the Rich (1919).

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 19 October 2022.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 19 : Website-AFI.