Wealthy American widow Elizabeth Carter plans to marry the Earl of Dettminster when lawyer Augustus Tucker informs her of a codicil in her late husband's will. The Carter fortune will go to nephew Pitney Carter, who is in love with Elizabeth, if her second husband is not an American. Elizabeth therefore pays penniless playwright Jasper Mallory $50,000 to marry her and schemes with actress Mme. Albani to provide grounds for divorce so that she may then make the earl her third husband.
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Ethel Barrymore
Elizabeth Carter
Known for
The Spiral Staircase
Deadline - U.S.A.
Irving Cummings
Jasper Mallory
Known for
The Saphead
H. Dudley Hawley
Earl of Dettminster (as Dudley Hawley)
Also in
Moongold
Young Man of Manhattan
Ernest Stallard
Augustus Tucker
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Charles Dickson
Theodore Bacon
Also in
The Little Miss Brown
Alfred Kappeler
Pitney Carter (as Alfred Kappler)
Also in
A Nymph of the Foothills
Sentimental Tommy
Arthur Lewis
Carstairs
Also in
Across the Border
Wild Primrose
Pearl Browne
Mme. Albani
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Frank Reicher Director · Albert S. Le Vino Writer Henry K. Chambers Author
United States release December 17, 1917 · Produced in United States
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Metro Pictures Corporation
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · December 17, 1917
Theatrical
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