Leap Year
About Leap Year
Stanley Piper stands to inherit from his uncle Jeremiah, who hates women and packs him off on a fishing trip. Stanley is in love with the nurse, Phyllis Brown, and sets out to prove he does not fall for every woman he meets. He ends up engaged to three of them, fakes fits to get free, and is saved when the three find other people.
Cast & crew
More about Leap Year
Roscoe Arbuckle and James Cruze directed. Arbuckle plays Stanley. Shot in 1921, it was held back in the United States after the Virginia Rappe death. The first release was in Finland in 1924. An American release followed in 1981. Karl Brown photographed it. Mary Thurman plays Phyllis. Lucien Littlefield plays Jeremiah. John McKinnon plays the valet Mumford.
Themes
Background
The U.S. release was stopped because of the 1921 Rappe case. Finland saw it in 1924.
Look
Karl Brown photographed it.
Preservation
Prints at the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Library of Congress. First shown in Finland in 1924; an American release came in 1981.
Notes
- Harriet Hammond, Gertrude Short, Maude Wayne, and Winifred Greenwood play the other women.
- Stanley stutters when excited and is given water to get the words out.
- Prints are at UCLA and the Library of Congress.
Scenes
- Stanley pretends to be ill and to have fits to break three engagements.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-leap-year)
