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Fool's Paradise is a american film of genre Romance directed by Cecil B. DeMille released in USA on 9 december 1921 with Dorothy Dalton
Fool's Paradise (1921)
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Add to a movie listFool's Paradise is a 1921 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film stars Dorothy Dalton and Conrad Nagel and was based on the short story "Laurels and the Lady" by Leonard Merrick.
Actors
Dorothy Dalton
(Poll Patchouli)
Conrad Nagel
(Arthur Phelps)
Mildred Harris
(Rosa Duchene)
Theodore Kosloff
(John Roderiguez)
John Davidson
(Prince Talaat-Ni)
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