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Prudence on Broadway

Prudence on Broadway

Comedy

50m

July 6, 1919 (106 years ago)

Overview

Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.

ActorAge thenAge now
Olive Thomas

Olive Thomas

Prudence

Birthday: October 20, 1894

24 September 10, 1920 (25)
Francis McDonald

Francis McDonald

Grayson Mills

Birthday: August 21, 1891

27 September 18, 1968 (77)
Harvey Clark

Harvey Clark

John Melbourne

Birthday: October 3, 1885

33 July 19, 1938 (52)
J.P. Wild

J.P. Wild

John Ogilvie

Birthday: -

- May 2, 1921 (null)
Alberta Lee

Alberta Lee

Mrs. Ogilvie

Birthday: March 21, 1860

59 November 12, 1928 (68)
Lillian West

Lillian West

Mrs. Allen Wentworth

Birthday: March 15, 1886

33 April 23, 1970 (84)
Edward Peil Sr.

Edward Peil Sr.

Mr. Wentworth

Birthday: January 18, 1883

36 December 29, 1958 (75)
Mary Warren

Mary Warren

Kitty

Birthday: November 6, 1893

25 August 4, 1956 (62)
Lillian Langdon

Lillian Langdon

Mrs. Melbourne

Birthday: November 24, 1860

58 February 8, 1943 (82)
Claire McDowell

Claire McDowell

Miss Grayson

Birthday: October 31, 1877

41 October 23, 1966 (88)