Film

Fools and Their Money

1919 · 50m · Comedy

Although her husband and children want to continue living modestly after they acquire a fortune from munitions, Mrs. Tompkins has social aspirations and persuades them to move into an exclusive country neighborhood and send their son Dick to Yale. When Mrs. Tompkins mistakes Louise Allenby, the daughter of her aristocratic neighbors, for a maid, Louise in jest pretends to be the Allenby social secretary. Dick, returning home, hears some girls giggling about Louise's joke on the Tompkins family and for revenge he becomes a groom for the Allenbys, but he and Louise fall in love. During a party, swindler Cholly Van Dusen steals some of the Allenby jewels and blames Louise who is put under arrest until her parents return. Cholly is then caught, Louise and Dick with revealed identities announce their love, and the Tompkinses are accepted socially.

Emmy Wehlen

Louise Allenby

Jack Mulhall

Richard Tompkins

Emmett King

William A. Allenby

Mollie McConnell

Gwyndolynne Allenby

Betty K. Peterson

Jane Tompkins

William V. Mong

Martin Tompkins

Gerard Alexander

Mrs. Nora Tompkins

John Steppling

Chef

Bertram Grassby

Cholly Van Dusen

Gordon Marr

Percy Winslow

Charles Hill Mailes

• Herbert BlachéDirector
• Emil ForstWriter
• Finis FoxWriter
• Maxwell KargerProducer

Release date

June 16, 1919

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Genres

Comedy