Just Sylvia (1918)
Sylvia, a model in the shop of a fashionable dressmaker, is introduced to the Hicks family, which recently has acquired a fortune through iron ore deposits discovered on their farm. Octavia Hicks sees in the cultured but unpretentious Sylvia a good match for her son Henry and invites the young woman to visit the Hicks home. Two other visitors, Frank Hayward and his accomplice Annie, are masquerading as a count and a princess in order to con the country-born millionaires out of their money. The two are introduced to Sylvia, who soon discovers their plots and exposes them. A mysterious foreign gentleman appears and announces that the fashion model is actually the Princess Sylvia of Karalyn, but she renounces her title to marry Henry.
Director: Travers Vale
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Barbara Castleton as Sylvia |
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Johnny Hines as Henry Hicks |
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Jack Drumier as Zebulon Hicks |
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Gertrude Berkeley as Octavia Hicks |
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Franklyn Hanna as J. Orlando Dell |
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Henry Warwick as Danglar |
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Tony Merlo as Frank Hayward |
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Eloise Clement as Annie |
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Theresa Maxwell Conover as Mrs. Layton Du Roc |
| Directing | Travers Vale | Director |
| Writing | Hamilton Smith | Writer |
| Writing | Harry O. Hoyt | Story |
| Crew | Philip Hatkin | Cinematography |