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It Pays to Advertise (1919 film)

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Genre
  
Comedy

Produced by
  
Jesse L. Lasky

Duration
  

Director
  
Donald Crisp

Story by
  
Walter C. Hackett

Cinematography
  
Charles Schoenbaum

Country
  
United States


Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
November 23, 1919 (1919-11-23)

Based on
  
It Pays to Advertise  by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett

Writer
  
Roi Cooper Megrue (play), Walter C. Hackett (play), Elmer Harris (scenario)

Cast
  
Lois Wilson
(Mary Grayson),
Julia Faye
,
Bryant Washburn
(Rodney Martin),
Frank Currier
(Cyrus Martin),
Walter Hiers
(Ambrose Peale)

Similar movies
  
How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Navigator (1924), The Women (2008), Smilin Through (1932), That Girl from Paris (1936)

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It Pays to Advertise is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Donald Crisp and written by Elmer Blaney Harris based upon a play of the same name by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett. The film stars Bryant Washburn, Lois Wilson, Frank Currier, Walter Hiers, Clarence Geldart, and Julia Faye. The film was released on November 23, 1919, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives, and it may be a lost film.

Contents

The film was remade in 1931.

Louise brooks in it pays to advertise 1931


Plot

As described in a film magazine, Rodney Martin (Washburn) graduates from college with a splendid education and is surprised to find himself absolutely unprepared for a business career. However, business strangely attracts him, possible because of Mary Grayson (Wilson), his father's secretary, whom he thinks is the most proper thing in women. Since she is a businesswoman, he reasons that he must prove himself a business man. He decks out an office before he decides what line of business he will follow. A friend suggests the soap business. He straight away begins an advertising campaign that works wonders. However, the bills, when they arrive, overcome him and he faces disaster. His father comes to the rescue by appointing him and advertising man in his organization, so all ends as it should.

Cast

  • Bryant Washburn as Rodney Martin
  • Lois Wilson as Mary Grayson
  • Frank Currier as Cyrus Martin
  • Walter Hiers as Ambrose Peale
  • Clarence Geldart as House Manager
  • Julia Faye as Countess de Beaurien
  • Guy Oliver as McChesney
  • References

    It Pays to Advertise (1919 film) Wikipedia
    It Pays to Advertise (1919 film) IMDb