Name: The Prince and Betty
Released: 1919
Cast: William Desmond, Mary Thurman, Anita Kay, George Swann, Walter Perry

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Dec 21, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Jesse D. Hampton Productions

Distribution Company

Pathé Exchange, Inc.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Prince and Betty by P. G. Wodehouse (New York, 1912).

Synopsis

Young American John Maude is forced to find a job when he falls in love with society girl Betty Keith. He accepts a sudden offer to go to Mervo, a tiny island country, where he is hired by Benjamin Scobell to pose as the lost prince of Mervo as an attraction to bolster the Mervo casino as a rival of Monte Carlo. Scobell also wants John to marry his stepdaughter, who turns out to be Betty. When Betty accuses John of being simply a shill for a gambling house, John closes the casino and tries to stage a revolution to make Mervo a republic. The natives resist, but the President of Mervo returns to run the casino himself, and Betty and John escape to America together.