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Comedy, Drama

50m

August 27, 1916 (109 years ago)

Overview

Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find her nouveau riche family has adopted and magnified the worst characteristics of the upper class. Her father spends all of his time at the club, her mother cultivates snobbishness, and her sister thinks only of marrying into royalty. To shake them out of their aristocratic poses, Bessie decides to reflect all of their faults, becoming as lazy as her father and as status conscious as her mother. She even rejects her own sweetheart, Allan Shelby, to lure Count d'Orr away from her sister. Finally, the members of the family confront Bessie, and she angrily tells them that she was only mirroring their behavior. Bessie then runs away, but Allan, with whom she quickly reconciles, brings her back, just as her family acknowledges its recent burlesque of the upper crust.

ActorAge thenAge now
Bessie Barriscale

Bessie Barriscale

Bessie Wheaton

Birthday: September 30, 1884

31 June 30, 1965 (80)
Charles Ray

Charles Ray

Bob Wheaton

Birthday: March 15, 1891

25 November 23, 1943 (52)
Clara Williams

Clara Williams

Inez Wheaton

Birthday: May 3, 1888

28 May 8, 1928 (40)
George Fisher

George Fisher

Allan Shelby

Birthday: August 9, 1891

25 August 13, 1960 (69)
Aggie Herring

Aggie Herring

Clara Wheaton

Birthday: February 3, 1876

40 October 28, 1939 (63)
Tom Guise

Tom Guise

Jeremiah Wheaton

Birthday: January 1, 1857

59 January 1, 1930 (73)
Louise Glaum

Louise Glaum

Daisy Flores

Birthday: September 4, 1888

27 November 25, 1970 (82)
Joseph J. Dowling

Joseph J. Dowling

Count d'Orr

Birthday: September 3, 1850

65 July 8, 1928 (77)