The guests at a summer resort hotel, headed by Mrs. Van Courtlandt--Van Allstyn, are preparing to stage a charity performance of a farce, and Gaston Allegretti, threatened with dismissal by the owners, has promised to obtain the services of Broadway star Elsie Parmelee.

Moonlit verandas, paper lanterns trembling in Atlantic breezes, and the faint hiss of a hotel orchestra tuning for charity night—The Beautiful Liar opens like a hand-tinted postcard slipped inside a gossip column. George Marion Jr. and Ruth Wightman’s scenario, tailored for the incandescent Katherine MacDonald, piroue...


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" Moonlit verandas, paper lanterns trembling in Atlantic breezes, and the faint hiss of a hotel orchestra tuning for charity night—The Beautiful Liar opens like a hand-tinted postcard slipped inside a gossip column. George Marion Jr. and Ruth Wightman’s scenario, tailored for the incandescent Katherine MacDonald, pirouettes between backstage bedlam and drawing-room ardor without ever stumbling into the footlights of farce for farce’s sake. Gaston Allegretti—played by Wilfred Lucas with the twitc..."
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George Marion Jr., Ruth Wightman
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