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Our Leading Citizen
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6634 feet
Directed by Alfred E. Green

Cast: Thomas Meighan [Daniel Bentley], Lois Wilson [Katherine Fendle], William P. Carleton [Oglesby Fendle], Theodore Roberts [Colonel San De Mott], Guy Oliver [Cale Higginson], Laurence Wheat [J. Sylvester Dubley], James Neill [Congressman Cyrus Blagdon], Lucien Littlefield [the editor], Charles Ogle [the judge], Tom Kennedy [Boots], Sylvia Ashton [Mrs. Brazey], Ethel Wales [Eudora Mawdle]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Waldemar Young, from the adaptation by George Ade of a screen story by George Ade. Cinematography by L. Guy Wilky and William Marshall. Presented by Adolph Zukor. / © 14 June 1922 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP17980]. Released [?] 14 or 18? June 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 16 October 2011.

References: Drew-Speaking p. 289; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 155; Sherwood-Best p. 181 : Photoplay-192306 p. 17 : Website-AFI.