Pleasure Before Business
Pleasure Before Business

Pleasure Before Business

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1927
0h 55m
8.0(1 votes)
Comedy
Romance

Overview

When an industrious cigar manufacturer, Sam Weinberg, falls into bad health, his daughter Ruth uses up her dowry to keep him in the life to which he has grown accustomed.

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