Clover Ames's life consists only of the drudge work that she performs at her Aunt Sarah's boardinghouse. No longer able to withstand her aunt's abuse, Clover runs away and obtains a job as a maid to a wealthy woman. Willed $7,000 by Pierre Dubois, a boarder at her aunt's house, Clover, inspired by a novel that she has read, poses as a duchess at a fashionable winter resort. There she meets and falls in love with Walter Gray, who is also traveling incognito as a ribbon clerk. When Clover's money runs out, her trick is discovered and she vanishes. Obtaining employment in Gray's department store, Clover learns that her ribbon clerk is actually the owner's son, who rushes her to the wedding bureau.
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Emmy Wehlen
Clover Ames
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Ricca Allen
Aunt Sarah
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Frank Currier
Pierre Dubois
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
George Christie
Walter Gray
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Peggy Parr
Helen Brentwood
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Kate Blancke
Mrs. Brentwood
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Walter Horton
Steve Gordon
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Ilean Hume
Alice Harris
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Charles Eldridge
Walter Gray Sr.
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Frederick Truesdell
Henry Strang
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George D. Baker Director · Charles Logue Writer John B. Clymer Writer
United States release May 28, 1917 · Produced in United States
Production
Rolfe Photoplays
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · May 28, 1917
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