The Best People (1925)
Romantic comedy | 9 November 1925
Director:
Sidney OlcottWriter:
Bernard McConvilleCinematographer:
James HoweProduction Company:
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.Another adaptation of the play The Best People was produced as a sound film by Paramount in 1930. Entitled Fast and Loose, that film was directed by Fred Newmeyer and starred Miriam Hopkins and Carole Lombard (see entry). ...
Another adaptation of the play The Best People was produced as a sound film by Paramount in 1930. Entitled Fast and Loose, that film was directed by Fred Newmeyer and starred Miriam Hopkins and Carole Lombard (see entry).
Wealthy Mrs. Lenox intends that her son and daughter shall marry into their own class; the children, Bertie and Marian, plan otherwise: Marian is in love with Henry Morgan, the sensible family chauffeur, and Bertie loves Sally O'Neil, a chorus girl. Arthur Rockmere, Marian's anemic, sometime fiancé, arranges with Marian's father and her uncle, Throckmorton, to meet with Alice and Millie (one of Alice's friends) in order to buy off Alice. Bertie learns of the meeting and tries to disrupt it, landing in jail in the company of Alice, Millie, and Throckmorton. Millie bails them out; Bertie marries Alice, Marian marries Henry, and Uncle Throckmorton, the self-styled social arbiter, marries ...
Wealthy Mrs. Lenox intends that her son and daughter shall marry into their own class; the children, Bertie and Marian, plan otherwise: Marian is in love with Henry Morgan, the sensible family chauffeur, and Bertie loves Sally O'Neil, a chorus girl. Arthur Rockmere, Marian's anemic, sometime fiancé, arranges with Marian's father and her uncle, Throckmorton, to meet with Alice and Millie (one of Alice's friends) in order to buy off Alice. Bertie learns of the meeting and tries to disrupt it, landing in jail in the company of Alice, Millie, and Throckmorton. Millie bails them out; Bertie marries Alice, Marian marries Henry, and Uncle Throckmorton, the self-styled social arbiter, marries Millie.
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