Name: The Embarrassment of Riches
Released: 1918
Cast: Lillian Walker, Carl Brickert, John Costello, Edward Keenan, Henry Sedley

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Sep 23, 1918

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Lillian Walker Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

General Film Co.; W. W. Hodkinson Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play The Embarrassment of Riches by Louis K. Anspacher (New York, 14 May 1906).

Synopsis

Through the death of a relative, New York sweatshop worker Lizzie Holt is transformed into Miss Elizabeth Holt, heiress. Elizabeth soon tires, however, of the shallowness of society life and occupies herself by working in a settlement house on the lower East Side. There she falls in love with John Russell, an idealist who despises the rich, and to escape his scorn, she identifies herself as Miss Holt's secretary. John's efforts to close up ward boss Ted Phelan's gambling house next door prove successful when the place is raided, but when several of Elizabeth's acquaintances on a "slumming party" seek her aid in escaping arrest, John discovers her true identity. He is about to change his mind about marrying her, when Elizabeth convinces him that her love and her character are true, and the two are united.