Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better coaching from Daniel Hoffman, a theatrical producer. As Olga Rostova, an exotic Russian, she meets Norman Brooke, whose infatuation turns to love. Hoffman suggests that Norman could never care for Lizzie and proves his point. Heartbroken, Lizzie decides to see no more of him. On closing night, when he proposes to her in her dressing room and she refuses, Norman declares he must believe all the lurid details of her past; in desperation, she bares her true identity, only to find it is not her glamorous image but rather her real self that he loves.
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Esther Ralston
Lizzie Stokes / Olga Rostova
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Neil Hamilton
Norman Brooke
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Batman
Tarzan the Ape Man
Nicholas Soussanin
Daniel Hoffman
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The Last Command
Arlette Marchal
Maggie Courtney
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Wings
Arthur Housman
Ebbetts
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Scram!
Frank Tuttle Director · Hope Loring Screenplay Rita Weiman Story
United States release November 19, 1927 · Produced in United States
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English
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United States · November 19, 1927
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