
Patience Hilton is convinced by her father's kindly head bookkeeper, Magnus "Magpie" MacDonald, that one can only be happy by living the simple life. However, she fails to convince her millionaire parents and her boyfriend, Hale Thompson, to give up their lives of luxury.

Charles Mortimer Peck, Ruth Ann Baldwin
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The year 1919 was a crucible for the American psyche, a period where the trauma of the Great War collided with an unprecedented industrial boom. Within this cultural friction, Fox Film Corporation released Cheating Herself, a film that, on its surface, appears to be a lighthearted social comedy but serves as a fascina...

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" The year 1919 was a crucible for the American psyche, a period where the trauma of the Great War collided with an unprecedented industrial boom. Within this cultural friction, Fox Film Corporation released Cheating Herself, a film that, on its surface, appears to be a lighthearted social comedy but serves as a fascinating specimen of class-conscious storytelling. Directed by Sidney Franklin and written by the formidable Ruth Ann Baldwin, the film interrogates the burgeoning 'simple life' moveme..."


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