Love Is an Awful Thing

As Anthony Churchill stands on the cusp of matrimony with Helen Griggs, the specter of his tumultuous past threatens to upend his meticulously laid plans, courtesy of a forgotten paramour, Marion, who brandishes a cache of compromising love letters. In a desperate bid to salvage his reputation and impending nuptials, Anthony concocts an elaborate ruse, masquerading as a married man, enlisting the unwitting assistance of a janitor's wife and a troupe of hired children. However, his duplicitous endeavors are soon laid bare when Helen stumbles upon what she perceives as irrefutable proof of his perfidy, plunging their relationship into turmoil. As the situation spirals out of control, Anthony's hapless attempts to pilfer the incriminating letters from Marion's quarters ultimately backfire, culminating in a dramatic denouement that exposes Marion and her cohorts as cunning blackmailers seeking to fleece Anthony and the Griggs family of their wealth.