Salesgirl Marion Hoyte, unlike the other members of her family, seeks to better her situation; hence, when she accidentally becomes acquainted with young architect James Lodge, who clears her of the charge of stealing a customer's purse, Marion accepts his attentions. Leroy, a suitor for Marion, and her sister Bertha object, but Marion soon becomes engaged to James.
In the shadowed corridors of early 20th-century New York, where social standing is etched into every handshake and glance, Her Social Value emerges as a silent film that still roars with the urgency of modern discourse on class and gender. Directed by an uncredited hand in the pre-code era, this 1920 drama starring ...
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" In the shadowed corridors of early 20th-century New York, where social standing is etched into every handshake and glance, Her Social Value emerges as a silent film that still roars with the urgency of modern discourse on class and gender. Directed by an uncredited hand in the pre-code era, this 1920 drama starring Lillian Rich as Marion Hoyte and Roy Stewart as James Lodge is less a romance than a clinical dissection of how marriage functions as both a lifeline and a noose for women bound by..."
Joseph W. Girard
Jerome Storm, Gerald C. Duffy, J.A. Barry, B.P. Fineman
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