The Fair Cheat

The Fair Cheat — Plot

Camilla Van Dam is in love with her rich father's poor employee, John Hamilton. Van Dam is against their marriage but proposes an arrangement to which Camilla agrees. Van Dam goes abroad with the understanding that she will not marry for a year or reveal her whereabouts to Hamilton. Announcing to the press that she is accompanying her father, Camilla instead gets a job as a chorus girl, takes an apartment, and supports herself. Hamilton finds her and joins in the deception until Van Dam's secretary tries to make off with the fortune on hearing the false rumor of Van Dam's death. Van Dam consents readily to his daughter's marriage when he returns.

• Release date
• September 16, 1923
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Burton L. King

The Fair Cheat — Cast

Edmund Breese Morgan Van Dam Wilfred Lytell John Hamilton Dorothy Mackaill Camilla

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Marie White Gloria Starke

W

William Robyns Rutledge Stone

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Harold Foshay Crittenden Scott Buckley Bradley Barker Sloman Zeigler

J

Jack Newton Sam Hiller