Help Wanted -Xxx Male (1920)
Comedy | 26 September 1920
Cast:
Blanche Sweet, Henry King, Frank Leigh [ More ]Director:
Henry KingWriters:
George H. Plympton , Edwina LevinEditor:
K. E. AndersonProduction Company:
Jesse D. Hampton ProductionsThe working titles of this film were Leona Goes A-Hunting and Object, Marriage. ...
The working titles of this film were Leona Goes A-Hunting and Object, Marriage.
Object, Marriage
Leona Stafford receives a legacy of $1000 and invests it in a scheme to catch a rich husband. After purchasing a new wardrobe, Leona goes to a fashionable resort hotel where she poses as a widow with a mysterious past. She arouses the suspicions of the hotel clerk, a correspondence school sleuth, who suspects that she has kidnapped Captain Cromwell, a wealthy aviator who has been missing for several days. Desperate, Leona appeals for help to Tubbs, whom she believes to be an idle tramp. Tubbs wins her love before he discloses himself as the missing aviator, causing Leona to heave a sigh of relief that her search for a husband has ...
Leona Stafford receives a legacy of $1000 and invests it in a scheme to catch a rich husband. After purchasing a new wardrobe, Leona goes to a fashionable resort hotel where she poses as a widow with a mysterious past. She arouses the suspicions of the hotel clerk, a correspondence school sleuth, who suspects that she has kidnapped Captain Cromwell, a wealthy aviator who has been missing for several days. Desperate, Leona appeals for help to Tubbs, whom she believes to be an idle tramp. Tubbs wins her love before he discloses himself as the missing aviator, causing Leona to heave a sigh of relief that her search for a husband has ended.
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