Billy's Rival

1914 American film

October 7, 1914 (1914-10-07)

CountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Billy's Rival is a 1914 American silent short film directed by Sydney Ayres, starring William Garwood and Louise Lester.

Cast

William Garwood as Billy Manning
Louise Lester as His wife
Vivian Rich as Mary, his wife
Jack Richardson as Mary's father
Harry von Meter as Thomas Day
Charlotte Burton as Mrs. Day, his invalid mother

External links

Billy's Rival at IMDb

Anita Loos

Novels

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. (1926)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928)

Plays

Happy Birthday (1946)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
Gigi (1951)
Chéri (1959)

Film
/I signals that Loos also wrote the
intertitles; some works are co-written

Writer (screenplay/ scenario)	My Baby (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The New York Hat (1912) The Mistake (1913) The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913) Billy's Rival (1914) The Girl in the Shack (1914) The Hunchback (1914) The Sisters (1914/I) The Americano (1916/I) Stranded (1916/I) The Half-Breed (1916) His Picture in the Papers (1916) The Children Pay (1916) A Daughter of the Poor (1917) Reaching for the Moon (1917) Wild and Woolly (1917) Let's Get a Divorce (1918) The Isle of Conquest (1919) A Virtuous Vamp (1919) Mama's Affair (1921) Red Hot Romance (1922) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) The Struggle (1931) Red-Headed Woman (1932) The Barbarian (1933) Hold Your Man (1933) The Girl from Missouri (1934; original) Riffraff (1936) San Francisco (1936) Saratoga (1937) The Women (1939) Susan and God (1940) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) When Ladies Meet (1941) The Lost House (1915) They Met in Bombay (1941) I Married an Angel (1942) Producers' Showcase "Happy Birthday" (1956)
Story	Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914) American Aristocracy (1916) Woman's Place (1921) Midnight Mary (1933) Saratoga (1937)
Novel	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
Titles	The Americano (1916) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) Macbeth (1916) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
Other	The Branded Woman (1920; adaptation) Red Hot Romance (1922; executive producer) Blondie of the Follies (1932; dialogue) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; play)
Uncredited	The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) Another Thin Man (1939) Babes in Arms (1939) Strange Cargo (1940) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)