A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Pleasure Before Business
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / [?] 1697 or 1718? feet
Directed by Frank R. Strayer

Cast: Pat O’Malley [Doctor Burke], Virginia Brown Faire [Ruth Weinberg], Max Davidson [Sam Weinberg], Rosa Rosanova [Sarah Weinberg], Lester Bernard [Morris Fishbein], Tom McGuire [a Scotsman], Jack Raymond [Louie], Henri Menjou [the captain]

Columbia Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Harry Cohn. Scenario by William Branch, from a screen story by William Branch. Cinematography by J.O. Taylor. Presented by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / Released 20 April 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 July 2025.

References: Website-IMDb.