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The Beautiful Cheat

10.0 70 mins Comedy   1926
Universal Pictures  
Director(s): Edward Sloman

Release Date: 21 Sun, Feb 1926

A motion picture producer has press agent Jimmy Austin take Mary Callahan, a pretty shopgirl, to Europe. After an extensive publicity campaign, Mary returns to the United States as Maritza Callahansky, a Russian actress owning the crown jewels. To add support to her newly established identity, Maritza gives a party in a Long Island mansion in the rightful owner's absence. The owners return to find their home taken over by strangers and are about to call the police when it is discovered that they are the parents of one of the extras in the company.

Casts of The Beautiful Cheat

Laura La Plante

as Mary Callahan / Maritza Callahansky

Alexander Carr

as Albert Goldringer

Harry Myers

as Jimmy Austin

Kate Price

as Kate 'Ma' Callahan

Tom Guise

as Leland Bruckman

Helen Carr

as Lady Violet Armington

Walter Perry

as Tom 'Pa' Callahan

Helen Dunbar

as Mrs. Leland Bruckman

Bertram Grassby

as Marquis de la Pontenac

Robert Anderson

as Dan Brodie

Youcca Troubetzkov

as Herbert Dangerfield

Janet Gaynor

as Extra

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