Fools and Their Money
1919, English. Directed by 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.
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- 0h 50m
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- English
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Cast & crew
- Herbert BlachéDirector
- Emmy WehlenLouise Allenby
- Jack MulhallRichard Tompkins
- Emmett KingWilliam A. Allenby
- Mollie McConnellGwyndolynne Allenby
- Betty K. PetersonJane Tompkins
- William V. MongMartin Tompkins
- Gerard AlexanderMrs. Nora Tompkins
- John StepplingChef
- Bertram GrassbyCholly Van Dusen
- Gordon MarrPercy Winslow
- Charles Hill MailesCast
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- Released
- 16 June 1919
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Emil Forst, Finis Fox
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Who directed Fools and Their Money?
Fools and Their Money (1919) was directed by Herbert Blaché and stars Emmy Wehlen, Jack Mulhall, Emmett King.