The Right to be Happy

Scrooge the Skinflint, A Christmas Carol (Working title)

Directed by: Rupert Julian, USA, 1916

USA, 1916
Plakatmotiv The Right to be Happy, © Bluebird Photoplays Inc.


Cast and Credits

Production Bluebird Photoplays Inc.
Distribution Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Director Rupert Julian
Scenario Elliott J. Clawson [As E.J. Clawson]
Based on Charles Dickens
Director of Photography Stephen Rounds [(as Steven Rounds)]
Cast Rupert Julian [Scrooge]
Rupert Julian [Bob Cratchit]
Claire McDowell [Mrs Cratchit]
Frankie Lee [Tiny Tim (as Francis Lee)]
Harry Carter [Jacob Marley]
Emory Johnson [Fred, Scrooge's Nephew]
Francelia Billington [Scrooge's Sweetheart]
Francelia Billington [The Ghost of the Future]
Wadsworth Harris [The Ghost of the Past]
Richard L'Estrange [The Ghost of the Present (as Dick Le Strange)]
Lydia Yeamans Titus [Mrs. Fezziwig (as Mrs. Titus)]
Roberta Wilson [Caroline]

Technical specifications
Category: Feature Film
Technical Details: Format: 35 mm, 1:1,33 - Ratio: 1:1,33 - Black and White,, 5000 feet, 5 reels
Sound System: silent
First Screening: December 21, 1916 in USA
US Copyright: December 15, 1916 - ©LP.9742
Survival Status: This picture is presumably lost
Szenenphoto aus The Right to be Happy, © Bluebird Photoplays Inc.

General Information

The Right to be Happy is a motion picture produced in the year 1916 as a USA production. The Film was directed by Rupert Julian, with Rupert Julian, , Claire McDowell, Frankie Lee, Harry Carter, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file; There are no reviews of The Right to be Happy available.

Bibliography - Exhibitor's Trade Review, 23 December 1916, pg 192, 210
- Motography, January 13, 1917, pg 58.
- The Motion Picture News, 23 December 1916, pg 4017.
- The Motion Picture News, 30 December 1916, pg 4236.
- The Moving Picture World, 28 October 1916, pg 604.
- The Moving Picture World, 6 January 1917, pg 135.
- The New York Dramatic Mirror, 23 December 1916, pg 26.
- Wid's Film Daily, 21 December 1916, pg 1188.

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