And He Never Knew
Beresford, president of the National City Bank, has Rene and Kenneth for daughter and son. Rene is in love with her father's financial clerk and he with her. His lack of means, however, he feels bars him from a wealthy man's daughter. Her brother, meanwhile, brings a fortune-hunting count to the house but Rene finds him out and has him ejected. When the uncle of Boyd, the clerk, dies suddenly, Rene sees her chance. She goes to a lawyer and puts up $50.000. The lawyer then writes Boyd that his uncle has left him this sum, and he promptly proposes to Rene. The two are married. Boyd takes his wife to this same lawyer after the ceremony and says that he wants to settle his $50,000 on her. When the lawyer is about to protest. Rene gives him the wink and thus she gets man and money both.
- Released
- 1915
Details
Release year: 1915
Storyline
Beresford, president of the National City Bank, has Rene and Kenneth for daughter and son. Rene is in love with her father's financial clerk and he with her. His lack of means, however, he feels bars him from a wealthy man's daughter. Her brother, meanwhile, brings a fortune-hunting count to the house but Rene finds him out and has him ejected. When the uncle of Boyd, the clerk, dies suddenly, Rene sees her chance. She goes to a lawyer and puts up $50.000. The lawyer then writes Boyd that his uncle has left him this sum, and he promptly proposes to Rene. The two are married. Boyd takes his wife to this same lawyer after the ceremony and says that he wants to settle his $50,000 on her. When the lawyer is about to protest. Rene gives him the wink and thus she gets man and money both.
Top credits
- F. White — John Beresford
- Hal Clarendon — Kenneth Clarendon - John's Son
- Reenie Farrington — Rene Clarendon - John's Daughter
- Boyd Marshall — Boyd Townsend