A Dramatic Comedy with plenty of action in which demureness disarms a scoundrel and is trapped by a woman's wit
July 6, 1919
50m
EN
Frank Borzage
Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.
Olive Thomas
Prudence
Francis McDonald
Grayson Mills
Catherine Carr
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Harvey Clark
John Melbourne
J.P. Wild
John Ogilvie
Alberta Lee
Mrs. Ogilvie
Lillian West
Mrs. Allen Wentworth
Edward Peil Sr.
Mr. Wentworth
Mary Warren
Kitty
Lillian Langdon
Mrs. Melbourne
Claire McDowell
Miss Grayson
Triangle Film Corporation
US
