Fools and Their Money

Fools and Their Money (1919)

Comedy

Although her husband and children want to continue living modestly after they acquire a fortune from munitions, Mrs. Tompkins has social aspirations and persuades them to move into an exclusive country neighborhood and send their son Dick to Yale. When Mrs. Tompkins mistakes Louise Allenby, the daughter of her aristocratic neighbors, for a maid, Louise in jest pretends to be the Allenby social secretary. Dick, returning home, hears some girls giggling about Louise's joke on the Tompkins family and for revenge he becomes a groom for the Allenbys, but he and Louise fall in love. During a party, swindler Cholly Van Dusen steals some of the Allenby jewels and blames Louise who is put under arrest until her parents return. Cholly is then caught, Louise and Dick with revealed identities announce their love, and the Tompkinses are accepted socially.

Director: Herbert Blaché

Casts

	Emmy Wehlen as Louise Allenby
	Jack Mulhall as Richard Tompkins
	Emmett King as William A. Allenby
	Mollie McConnell as Gwyndolynne Allenby
	Betty K. Peterson as Jane Tompkins
	William V. Mong as Martin Tompkins
	Gerard Alexander as Mrs. Nora Tompkins
	John Steppling as Chef
	Bertram Grassby as Cholly Van Dusen
	Gordon Marr as Percy Winslow
	Charles Hill Mailes as

Crew