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Bebe Daniels (left) and Harold Lloyd (center).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Great While It Lasted
Also known as Lonesome Luke into a Fortune and Out in the USA
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd [?] [Lonesome Luke or Byron Beanskin]?, Bebe Daniels, Harry Pollard (Snub Pollard) [?] [Hugo Snubb]?, Gene Marsh, Clyde Cook, Clifford Silsbee (Clifford Silsby), Arthur Harrison
The Rolin Film Company production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Phunphilms]. / Produced by Hal Roach. / Released 22 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Byron Beanskin and Hugo Snubb, on the brink of despair, are threatened to put one foot over when they receive a laundry and rent bill for $20.02. Hugo Snubb having broken his last nickel for lolly-pops, they ache for eats. When lo, glad tidings, Byron is rich; someone has died that he might live. With a new shroud, plenty of money, and a “vally” in the person of Hugo Snubb, and with cards printed to announce his importance, thusly: “Byron Beanskin. Worth $20,000,000.36,” he sallies forth to flock with the queens and becomes a social lion. At a garden party, a would-be pretender to Beanskin’s social position, slits his trousers, forcing him to hie to a near-by body of water, where he must stand until a barrel is procured that he might proceed to home, and bad news. He isn’t an heir, and as he finds out from the treatment accorded him by his landlady, none of the glory of riches attaches to hi.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 23 November 2022.
References: Braff-Short n. 8729; Lahue-World p. 91 : Website-IMDb; Website-Lloyd.
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