Heiress Mary Anderson feigns poverty during her romance with struggling artist Bruce Haldeman, however her status-conscious mother puts an end to the affair. Mary secretly goes to Bruce's studio, misconstrues the situation with one of his models and tells Bruce she hates him. Upset Bruce wants to destroy his portrait of Mary, but the model stops him, enters the painting in an art contest, and explains the mix-up to Mary's father. Mr. Anderson then meets with Bruce and Mary's persistent suitor Smythe Addison pretending he has lost his fortune. Smythe quickly drops out of contention for Mary's hand, but Bruce remains eager. Resolving their differences Bruce finds out during the planning of the wedding that he has won the art contest, finding overnight fame as a painter.
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Peggy Raymond, a country girl, comes to New York with plans for a career in art and is taken by mist...
The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.
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William Bradberry, an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one...
Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the mari...
A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved i...
A man loses his memory after a suicide attempt and falls for his nurse. He recovers physically but d...
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Penniless aristocrat Yvonne Dupré ekes out a living selling her paintings to a crooked dealer, Leon ...
Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "p...
The famous painter Bernhard Steen has made a portrait of the actress Thora Flemming.
Robert Bardon has searched for years for animal trainer Gamo who seduced and abandoned Brandon's dau...
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her ...
Amy Lindel, a church choir singer, goes to the city to pursue a singing career, but finds herself on...
Qi can't stand the family she's been married into tries to escape. On the day that she escapes, her ...
Coddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs up ...
In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.