Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary to John Clayton, a wealthy man who has just disinherited his worthless son, Frank, and left his entire fortune to his upright stepson, Bob Williams. At Frank's request, the spiritualist later performs for the elder Clayton a seance during which Rita impersonates the late Mrs. Clayton and arranges for a reconciliation between Frank and his father. Rita falls in love with Bob, however, and, in order to protect Bob's interests against Frank's, exposes the spiritualist as a faker. Frank is disgraced in his father's eyes, and Bob quickly forgives Rita for her past complicity in Frank's schemes.
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Cast
15 people
Jacqueline Logan
Rita Martin
Known for
The King of Kings
Charles Delaney
Bob Williams
Also in
Captured in Chinatown
The Branded Man
Ted Tetzlaff
Phil Rosen
Howard J. Green
Warner Oland
Hadrian
Known for
The Jazz Singer
Werewolf of London
William Hamilton
Charles Hill Mailes
Hadrian
Known for
The Mark of Zorro
Tenny Wright
Gaston Glass
Frank Clayton
Also in
Humoresque
Jewish Prudence
Harrison Wiley
Flora Finch
Emma
Known for
Those Awful Hats
The Cat and the Canary
Phil Rosen Director · Howard J. Green Writer Ted Tetzlaff Cinematographer
United States release January 2, 1929 · Produced in United States
Production
Columbia Pictures
Production · Distribution
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · January 2, 1929
Theatrical
Hungary
January 9, 1930
Ireland
December 20, 1929
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