Betty Takes a Hand (1918)
Synopsis
Discovering that her father, Peter Marshall, had been defrauded by a business partner named James Bartlett, Betty goes to Los Angeles to visit her aunt, Mrs. Hamilton Haines, whose late husband had a hand in ruining Peter. Tom, Bartlett's son, has arranged a yachting trip for Mrs. Haines and her daughter Ida, and Ida, deciding that her cousin is too pretty to come along, persuades Betty to stay behind. Tom, on the way to the yacht after a quarrel with his father, passes the Haines mansion and, noticing a sign advertising room and board, stops. Meeting Betty who is posing as Miss Haines, Tom moves in and falls in love with his landlady. When Betty accidentally meets Tom's father, the old man is so captivated that he offers her $5,000 to marry his son. After Tom and Betty are married, when both fathers discover their in-laws' true identities they are first indignant but later are reconciled.
Release Date: 1918-01-06
Runtime: 70 minutes
Director: John Francis Dillon
Top Cast
- Olive Thomas as Betty Marshall
- Frederick Vroom as Peter Marshall
- Bliss Chevalier as Mrs. Hamilton Hines
- Mary Warren as Ida Hines
- George Hernandez as James Bartlett
- Charles Gunn as Tom Bartlett
- Margaret Cullington as Miss Catherine
- Graham Pettie as Gardner
- June De Lisle as Maid
- Anna Dodge as Gardner's Wife
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