A Gentleman of Leisure (1915)
- Directed by
- George Melford
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 50 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man from a wealthy family tries to live a life of leisure and gets into comic situations involving a romance and a mistaken identity. The story is set in early 1900s high society.
lightheartedcomicwhimsicalold-fashionedplayfulfast-pacedcharmingperiod
What happens
A Gentleman of Leisure is a surviving 1915 American silent comedy film produced by Jesse Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It stars stage veteran Wallace Eddinger. The film is based on the 1910 novel A Gentleman of Leisure by P. G. Wodehouse and 1911 Broadway play adapted by Wodehouse and John Stapleton. Douglas Fairbanks was a cast member in the play several years before beginning a film career. This film survives in the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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