Name: Dodging a Million
Released: 1918
Cast: Mabel Normand, Tom Moore, J. Herbert Frank, Shirley Aubert, Rita Dane

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jan 28, 1918

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Goldwyn Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

Goldwyn Distributing Corp.

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

6 reels

Synopsis

Arabella Flynn, a model and errand girl for a fashionable dressmaker, inherits $800 from her Aunt Bettina and immediately moves into a posh hotel wearing the new finery from her shop. She begins a love affair with Jack Forsythe, the son of a wealthy corset maker, although a mysterious Spaniard, Signor Rodrigues -- actually the executor of Aunt Bettina's will -- keeps constant watch over her. Arabella is besieged by the tradesmen of the city until a lawyer's clerk reports to the hotel staff that the check was written in error and that Arabella is a swindler. Jack, jealous of Rodrigues' attentions to Arabella, leaves town, and Arabella is about to commit suicide when Aunt Bettina's lawyer explains that the check should have been made out for $80,000 rather than $800. Rodrigues admits that he had been hired by the eccentric aunt merely to determine Arabella's character, and Jack returns to his happy heiress.