When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
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Dorothy Devore as Mabel
Walter Hiers as Freddie
Tully Marshall as Blake
Jimmie Adams as Beauty Parlor Proprietor
Priscilla Bonner as Mary
James Harrison as Jack
Lincoln Plumer as City Editor
Patricia Palmer as Hairdresser
Rosa Gore as Customer
Jay Belasco as Customer
George C. Pearce as Mayor
Douglas Carter as Black Man
Scott Sidney Director
Frank Roland Conklin Writer
Al Christie Producer
Gus Peterson Director of Photography
Alex Phillips Director of Photography
United States 24 May 1924
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1924:
21 September 1924
Mysterious cowboy Bill Patton (as Bob Norton) arrives, "in the land of the West - on the banks of the Rio Grande," at the "Bar-V" ranch.
20 September 1924
A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends.
26 November 1924
Clever vamp Eve Quinn has generally had her way with men, while her quiet, deep-thinking sister Cornelia cannot bring herself to deliberately pursue them.
10 February 1924
Two sisters, Julia Crossland and Evelyn Jefferson, happy lives are thrown into turmoil when a man from their past, Thomas Chadwick reappears unexpectedly.
07 December 1924
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
18 August 1924
Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke considerable mirth among the passengers by their efforts.
28 December 1924
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den.
20 January 1924
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie.
01 April 1924
A Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.
31 August 1924
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit.
01 December 1924
Ruth Rogens (Sylvia Breamer) is married to policeman John Rogens (Jack Mower), whose work causes him to neglect her.
09 March 1924
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
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