False Pretenses (1935 film)
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Director Charles Lamont Duration Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Genres Comedy, Black-and-white Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Ewart Adamson , Betty Burbridge Release date October 22, 1935 (1935-10-22) Written by Ewart Adamson, Betty Burbridge Cast Irene Ware (Mary Beekman), Sidney Blackmer (Kenneth Alden), Betty Compson (Clarissa Stanhope), Russell Hopton (Pat Brennan), Edward Gargan (Mike O'Reilly), Ernest Wood (Tiffany Cortland)Similar movies Related Charles Lamont movies |
False Pretenses is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Irene Ware.
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- False pretenses 1935 comedy romance
- Plot
- Cast
- false pretenses 1935 irene ware sidney blackmer betty compson dot farley lafe mckee
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False pretenses 1935 comedy romance
Plot
When Mary Beekman (Irene Ware) loses her waitress job, after a fight with her loutish boyfriend, trucker Mike O’Reilly (Edward Gargan) she stands at a bridge on a windy night, losing her pay check through a windblown and leans over the guardrail of the bridge to catch it.
Socialite Kenneth Alden (Sidney Blackmer) catches her, thinking she wants to jump the bridge. He’s lost everything, which isn’t already mortgaged. Both down on their luck, they assume that the other is there to jump off the bridge.
Instead, Mary has an idea. If Ken sells shares to a syndicate of his wealthy friends, in a phoney beauty product, they’ll have enough money for some clothes to pass Mary off in society, long enough to meet and marry a wealthy bachelor. Then, they can pay everyone back, with interest.
The con might work, except that Ken has too much integrity to marry for money, to Clarissa (Betty Compson) (whom he loves for years) and, Mary is beginning to see his point, when she falls for Pat (Russell Hopton) who has secrets of his own.
The plot boils over when Mike shows up to blow the lid off. Pat's valet is a thief, who promised not to act foolishly. But he escapes with a stolen Tiara. Meantime Mary thinks to leave as things don't work out, so she shares the taxi to the station with Pat's valet escaping with the Tiara. There’s a police chase. Mary is hauled off to the station.
It looks like no one is going to end up with anything, but a bad reputation; but, it’s not over yet, in this curious, romantic comedy, about the social set, in 1930’s America, from Chesterfield films.
Cast
false pretenses 1935 irene ware sidney blackmer betty compson dot farley lafe mckee
References
False Pretenses (1935 film) WikipediaFalse Pretenses (1935 film) IMDb False Pretenses (1935 film) themoviedb.org