Rent Free
| Rent Free | |
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| Directed by | Howard Higgin |
| Written by | Izola Forrester(story) Mann Page(story) Elmer Rice(scenario) |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky Thomas Buchanan |
| Starring | Wallace Reid Lila Lee |
| Cinematography | Charles E. Schoenbaum |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | January 1, 1922 |
Running time | 5 reels; (4,661 feet) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent films(English intertitles) |
Rent Free is a 1922 silent film feature comedy produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film starred Wallace Reid and his current regular co-star Lila Lee. It was directed by Howard Higgin and adapted by Elmer Rice from a story written directly for the screen by Izola Forrester(the granddaughter of John Wilkes Booth) and Mann Page. Currently this film is lost.[1] [2]
Reid plays the part of a young painter. In real life he was a talented painter.
Higgin's first film as a director.
Cast
- Wallace Reid - Buell Arnister Jr.
- Lila Lee - Barbara Teller
- Henry A. Barrows - Buell Arnister Sr.
- Gertrude Short - Justine Tate
- Lucien Littlefield - 'Batty' Briggs
- Lillian Leighton - Maria Tebbs
- Claire McDowell - Countess de Mourney
- Clarence Geldart -Count de Mourney
References
- ^ Rent Free at silentera.com
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971