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Her Splendid Folly

"A TRAGIC DRAMA WITH A HAPPY ENDING"

Solomon Ginsberg is the President of International Pictures Corporation and hires Joan McAllister, an unemployed stenographer, to double for his star, Laura Girard. While on a location trip, Laura is killed in an automobile accident, and in order to save the money already invested in the film Ginsberg, aided by the film's leading-man, Wallace Morely, with whom Joan is more than a little infatuated, persuades Joan to assume the identity of the dead actress, whose death is being concealed.

Top Cast

  • Lilian Bond

    Lilian Bond

    Jill McAllister / Laura Gerard

  • Theodore von Eltz

    Theodore von Eltz

    Wallace Morley / John Ebbetts

  • Alexander Carr

    Alexander Carr

    Solomon Ginsberg

  • Beryl Mercer

    Beryl Mercer

    Mrs. McAllister

  • J. Frank Glendon

    J. Frank Glendon

    Charles Hemingway

  • Lloyd Whitlock

    Lloyd Whitlock

    John DeSylva

  • Roberta Gale

    Roberta Gale

    Sally Lee

  • Frances Lee

    Frances Lee

    Natalie

  • Louise Beavers

    Louise Beavers

    Anastasia

Overview

Solomon Ginsberg is the President of International Pictures Corporation and hires Joan McAllister, an unemployed stenographer, to double for his star, Laura Girard. While on a location trip, Laura is killed in an automobile accident, and in order to save the money already invested in the film Ginsberg, aided by the film's leading-man, Wallace Morely, with whom Joan is more than a little infatuated, persuades Joan to assume the identity of the dead actress, whose death is being concealed.

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