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I'll Show You the Town Synopsis
A bachelor who cannot bring himself to break a date ends up with three dates at the same restaurant on the same night. He juggles the dates, keeping each from seeing the others, by feigning reasons to excuse himself from each table.
Infatuation Synopsis
Motherless Phyllis Ladd runs the household of her father John, a railroad president, who loves her but dreads the day that she will marry and leave. To make her social debut, Phyllis leaves her hometown of Carthage and accepts the invitation of Mrs. Fenshaw, a Washington social matron, to live with her. Phyllis soon tires of the stuffy life and boring suitors and returns. At a matinee road-show performance, Phyllis becomes infatuated with actor Cyril Adair. When she invites him for tea, the vain actor accepts, hoping to seduce her. After more meetings, Cyril's discarded lover informs Ladd, who demands that the romance cease. Phyllis elopes with Cyril, who, touched by her devotion, marries her. Although their life is plagued by Cyril's alcoholism, firings and inability to get new roles because Ladd influences theater managers to reject him, Phyllis patiently tries to bring out the best in her husband. When Phyllis and Cyril refuse Ladd's bribes to end the marriage, Ladd relents, backs a show in which Cyril is to star and is reconciled with the couple.
"I'll Show You the Town" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Infatuation" offers its own unique cult appeal.
Suggested Watch:
I'll Show You the Town