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Fools and Their Money

0.0 50 mins Comedy   1919
Metro Pictures Corporation  
Director(s): Herbert Blaché

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.

Casts of Fools and Their Money

Emmy Wehlen

as Louise Allenby

Jack Mulhall

as Richard Tompkins

Emmett King

as William A. Allenby

Mollie McConnell

as Gwyndolynne Allenby

Betty K. Peterson

as Jane Tompkins

William V. Mong

as Martin Tompkins

Gerard Alexander

as Mrs. Nora Tompkins

John Steppling

as Chef

Bertram Grassby

as Cholly Van Dusen

Gordon Marr

as Percy Winslow

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