Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921 film)

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Still with Sam Hardy and Doris Kenyon
Directed byFrank Borzage
Written byLuther Reed
Based onGet-Rich-Quick Wallingford (novel)
by George Randolph Chester
play adaptation by George M. Cohan
StarringSam Hardy
Doris Kenyon
CinematographyChester A. Lyons
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 4, 1921 (1921-12-04)
Running time
70 minutes; 7 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford is a lost[1] 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Frank Borzage. The film's script was adapted by writer Luther Reed from the 1910 Broadway play by George M. Cohan,[2] which in turn was adapted from the novel Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by George Randolph Chester. Produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation, the film was released in seven reels on December 4, 1921.[3]

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford was the film being shown at the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington when that building collapsed, killing 98 people and injuring 133.[4]

  1. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
  2. ^ "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford – Broadway Play – Original | IBDB". Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
  3. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford". silentera.com. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
  4. ^ Fishbein, Gershon (January 22, 2009). "A Winter's Tale of Tragedy". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 9, 2010.