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Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
Written by | Sada Cowan Beulah Marie Dix |
Based on | "Laurels and the Lady" by Leonard Merrick |
Starring | Dorothy Dalton |
Cinematography |
Alvin Wyckoff Karl Struss |
Edited by | Anne Bauchens |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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9 reels (8,681 feet) |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Budget | $291,367.56 |
Box office | $901,937.79 |
Fool'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.
Production on the film began on April 4, 1921 and concluded on June 2, 1921. The film's budget was $291,367.56 and it went on to gross $901,937.79 at the box office.
Prints of Fool's Paradise are preserved at the George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.