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The Best People
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5700 feet
Directed by Sidney Olcott

Cast: Warner Baxter [Henry Morgan], Esther Ralston [Alice O’Neil], Kathlyn Williams [Mrs. Lenox], Edwards Davis [Bronson Lenox], William Austin [Arthur Rockmere], Larry Steers [Uncle Throckmorton], Margaret Livingston [Millie Montgomery], Joseph Striker [Bertie Lenox], Margaret Morris [Marian Lenox], Ernie Adams [the taxi driver]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Bernard McConville, from the play The Best People by David Gray and Avery Hopwood. Cinematography by James Howe (James Wong Howe). Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 28 December 1925 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP22169]. Premiered 18 October 1925 in New York, New York. Released 9 November 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as Fast and Loose (1930).

Comedy: Romance.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 3 May 2014.

References: Drew-Speaking pp. 196, 284; FilmYearBook-1926 pp. 35, 61 : Website-AFI.