Easy to Make Money (1919)
Jimmy Slocum, whose wealthy father continually pays his speeding fines and loses bets to him, wins a $1,000 bet with his father that Katherine Fowler, whom his father wants him to marry, does not love him. Jimmy then wins a $25,000 bet that he can keep from being arrested more than once in the coming year by getting a 12-month jail sentence for fighting in a bar, then sassing the judge.
- Date of release
- 1919-08-04
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Edwin Carewe
Casting
- Bert Lytell — James 'Jimmy' Frederick Slocum Jr.
- Gertrude Selby — Ethel Wheeler
- Frank Currier — James Frederick Slocum Sr.
- Stanton Heck — Henry Fowler
- Ethel Shannon — Katherine Fowler
- Edward Connelly — Jasper Kennedy
- Bull Montana — Charles 'Kid' Miller
- Hal Wilson
Interesting facts
Easy to Make Money, originally titled It's Easy to Make Money is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Edwin Carewe. It stars Bert Lytell, Gertrude Selby, and Frank Currier, and was released on August 4, 1919.
Production
In early May 1919, it was announced that Lytell's next picture would be a film written by John H. Blackwood, entitled, Easy to Make Money, Maxwell Karger having purchased the rights to Blackwood's story for Metro. Later in May it was revealed that Edwin Carewe would be the director. Principal photography on the film began on May 12, with the working title, It's Easy to Make Money.
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