False Pretenses
5.9
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
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Cast
12 people
Irene Ware
Mary Beekman
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Sidney Blackmer
Kenneth Alden
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Rosemary's Baby
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Betty Compson
Clarissa Stanhope
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Russell Hopton
Pat Brennan
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Edward Gargan
Mike O'Reilly
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Ernest Wood
Tiffany Cortland
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Lucy Beaumont
Miss Milgrim
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The Crowd
The Devil-Doll
Marshall Ruth
Gardner
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Dot Farley
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John Picorri
Soutar
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Herbert Clifton
Bleven
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William Humphrey
Newman
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Charles Lamont Director · Ewart Adamson Screenplay Betty Burbridge Story
United States release October 21, 1935 · Produced in United States
Production
Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 21, 1935
Theatrical
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