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Rent Free is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Howard Higgin released in USA on 1 january 1922 with Wallace Reid

Rent Free (1922)

Rent Free
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Released in USA 1 january 1922
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OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romance

Rent Free is a 1922 American silent comedy feature film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film starred Wallace Reid and his current regular co-star Lila Lee. It was directed by Howard Higgin and adapted by Elmer Rice from a story written directly for the screen by Izola Forrester (the granddaughter of John Wilkes Booth) and Mann Page. Currently this film is lost.

Reid plays the part of a young painter who moves into an abandoned house but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner. In real life Reid was a talented painter.

This was Higgin's first film as a director.

Synopsis

Buell est un jeune artiste peintre qui s'installe dans une maison abandonnée.

Actors

Wallace Reid

(Buell Arnister Jr)Lila Lee

(Barbara Teller)Henry Arthur Barrows

(Buell Arnister Sr.)Gertrude Short

(Justine Tate)Lucien Littlefield

('Batty' Briggs)
And :
Lillian Leighton
Claire McDowell
Clarence Geldart
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