Fools and Their Money
1919 · 50 min · Comedy
Although her husband and children want to continue living modestly after they acquire a fortune from munitions, Mrs. Tompkins has social aspirations and persuades them to move into an exclusive country neighborhood and send their son Dick to Yale. When Mrs. Tompkins mistakes Louise Allenby, the daughter of her aristocratic neighbors, for a maid, Louise in jest pretends to be the Allenby social secretary. Dick, returning home, hears some girls giggling about Louise's joke on the Tompkins family and for revenge he becomes a groom for the Allenbys, but he and Louise fall in love. During a party, swindler Cholly Van Dusen steals some of the Allenby jewels and blames Louise who is put under arrest until her parents return. Cholly is then caught, Louise and Dick with revealed identities announce their love, and the Tompkinses are accepted socially.
- Director
- Herbert Blaché
- Writers
- Emil Forst, Finis Fox
- Released
- June 16, 1919
- Language
- English
Cast
Emmy Wehlen
Louise Allenby
Jack Mulhall
Richard Tompkins
Emmett King
William A. Allenby
Mollie McConnell
Gwyndolynne Allenby
Betty K. Peterson
Jane Tompkins
William V. Mong
Martin Tompkins
Gerard Alexander
Mrs. Nora Tompkins
John Steppling
Chef
Bertram Grassby
Cholly Van Dusen
Gordon Marr
Percy Winslow
Charles Hill Mailes
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