Pleasure Before Business (1927)

Pleasure Before Business (1927)

“Pleasure Before Business” is a 1927 silent film comedy directed by Frank R. Strayer from a story and screenplay by William Branch.

When an industrious cigar manufacturer, Sam Weinberg “Max Davidson”, falls into bad health, his daughter Ruth “Virginia Brown Faire”, uses up her dowry to keep him in the to which he become accustomed. The money is retrieved after a horse race during which the winning horse is coaxed by his jockey in Yiddish.

Cast:

• Pat O’Malley – Dr. Burke
• Virginia Browne Faire – Ruth Weinberg
• Max Davidson – Sam Weinberg
• Rosa Rosanova – Sarah Weinberg
• Lester Bernard – Morris Fishbein
• Tom McGuire – Scotchman
• Jack Raymond – Louie
• Henri Menjou – Captain