False Pretenses

False Pretenses

68 mins | Comedy, Romance | Oct. 21, 1935

A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.

False Pretenses

68 mins | Comedy, Romance | Oct. 21, 1935

False Pretenses
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation
Original title False Pretenses
Directors Melville Shyer, Charles Lamont
Writers Betty Burbridge, Ewart Adamson

Cast

Irene Ware

as Mary Beekman

Sidney Blackmer

as Kenneth Alden

Betty Compson

as Clarissa Stanhope

Russell Hopton

as Pat Brennan

Edward Gargan

as Mike O'Reilly

Ernest Wood

as Tiffany Cortland

Lucy Beaumont

as Miss Milgrim

Marshall Ruth

as Gardner

Dot Farley

as Mrs. Smythe

John Picorri

as Soutar

Herbert Clifton

as Bleven

William Humphrey

as Newman