The Highest Bidder

The Highest Bidder

60 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1921

Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.

The Highest Bidder

60 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1921

The Highest Bidder
Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.
Producers Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
Original title The Highest Bidder
Directors Wallace Worsley, Josef von Sternberg
Writers Lloyd Lonergan

Cast

Madge Kennedy

as Sally Raeburn

Lionel Atwill

as Lester

Vernon Steele

as Hastings

Ellen Cassidy

as Fanny de Witt (as Ellen Cassity)

Zelda Sears

as Mrs. Steese

Joseph Brennan

as Horace Ashe

Reginald Mason

as Mawsby

Brian Darley

as Butts

William Black

as Mr. Steese