When Richard Earle marries Elaine Bronson for her money, he orders her to keep the marriage a secret so that he may continue his affair with a married woman, Lucille Bennett. Jimmy Newton falls in love with Elaine and takes her to his home after she is injured in a car accident.
F. McGrew Willis
United States
Picture, if you can, a ballroom drenched in chiaroscuro: chandeliers drip prisms onto parquet, yet every sparkle feels like a guillotine. Into this glimmering snare glides Richard Earle—Lew Cody’s brows arched like sabers—calculating the net worth of every smile. He weds Elaine Bronson, played by Mae Murray with the p...
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" Picture, if you can, a ballroom drenched in chiaroscuro: chandeliers drip prisms onto parquet, yet every sparkle feels like a guillotine. Into this glimmering snare glides Richard Earle—Lew Cody’s brows arched like sabers—calculating the net worth of every smile. He weds Elaine Bronson, played by Mae Murray with the porcelain fragility of a Klimt muse, but commands her to wear silence as though it were wedding lace. Why? So his nights can still belong to Lucille Bennett, a married siren whose l..."
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