False Pretenses

False Pretenses — Plot

A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.

• Release date
• October 21, 1935
• Runtime
• 68 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Romance
• Director
• Charles Lamont

False Pretenses — Cast

Irene Ware Mary Beekman Sidney Blackmer Kenneth Alden Betty Compson Clarissa Stanhope Russell Hopton Pat Brennan Edward Gargan Mike O'Reilly

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Ernest Wood Tiffany Cortland Lucy Beaumont Miss Milgrim Marshall Ruth Gardner