Pretty Smooth

"To Know her is to lose your heart. your watch & chain, too."

Pretty Smooth — Plot

Gertie Jones, known among other thieves as "The Chatterbox" because she talks to herself while she works, becomes a rich woman's French maid after learning about her employer's $40,000 diamond necklace. To cover up the scratches left by her tools after she unsuccessfully tries to open the safe containing the necklace, Gertie telephones the police to report an attempted burglary. Jimmy Hartigan, a famous thief, arrives and after he and Gertie fall in love at first sight, he is arrested.

• Release date
• June 16, 1919
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Crime, Comedy
• Director
• Rollin S. Sturgeon

Pretty Smooth — Cast

Priscilla Dean Gertie Jones Francis McDonald Jimmy Hartigan Gertrude Astor Mrs. Hanson George A. McDaniel Mr. Hanson Walt Whitman Ex-convict Josef Swickard Judge

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Clara Greenwood Nellie

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Milton Ross Kersey