15 February 1927 Drama, Romance 70 mins
Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous fop by a monocled Andre Beranger. True-blue hero Conway Tearle prevents Murray from making a bigger fool of herself than she already is.
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Mae Murray as Claire Sutherland
Conway Tearle as David Elrod
Robert Edeson as John Sutherland
Maude George as Kitty Pryor
George Beranger as Count André D'Orville
Christy Cabanne Director
Maria T. Davis Story
Alice D.G. Miller Writer
Albert Lewin Writer
George Hively Editor
United States 15 February 1927
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