The Fair Pretender

The Fair Pretender is a 1918 American silent

Plot

Sylvia Maynard is a typist in producer Townsend's office. To prove to him that she has acting ability, she goes to a society party, posing as "Mrs. Brown", the widow of a war hero. There, she meets several people, including Don Meredith, a playwright who is also posing as someone else, and Ramon Gonzales, a Brazilian who is, unbeknownst to the others at the party, a German spy.

Things are going well, and Don and Sylvia begin falling for one another, when suddenly Captain Milton Brown shows up. Don is crestfallen, and Sylvia is mortified, but Major Brown is more than willing to let the beautiful young woman continue her masquerade has his non-existent wife. Eventually, the entire scenario becomes too much for her, and she flees the party, but runs into Ramon on the train. She discovers that he has stolen important documents from the party's host, and she in turn steals them from him, returning to her apartment. Ramon tracks her down, but at the last moment, Don arrives and saves her.

Cast list

• Madge Kennedy as Sylvia Maynard
• Tom Moore as Don Meredith
• Robert Walker
  as Harcourt
• Paul Doucet as Ramon Gonzales
• Wilmer Walter as Captain Milton Brown
• Emmett King as Townsend
• John Terry as Freddie
• Charles Slattery as Barnum
• Florence Billings as Marjorie Townsend
• Grace Stevens as Mrs. Townsend

Reception

The

• This film is listed as surviving in the Spanish archive: Instituto Valenciano De Cinematografia,
  Valencia, Spain.^[6]

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Fair Pretender.

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• The Fair Pretender at the TCM Movie Database
• synopsis at AllMovie (plot by Hal Erickson)