A Pair of Sixes
Cast & Crew
Lawrence C. Windom
Taylor Holmes
Robert Conness
Alice Mann
Edna Phillips Holmes
Cecil Owen
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T. Boggs Johns and George B. Nettleton, the owners of the Eureka Digestive Pill Company, become so quarrelsome that their business is threatened. To teach them a lesson, their lawyer, Thomas J. Vanderholt, suggests that they resolve their differences at the poker table, the winner to take charge of the business for one year while the loser acts as his valet. Neither may reveal the circumstances of the bet upon a penalty of $5,000. Boggs loses the hand and becomes George's servant, after which he is pursued by the lovesick maid Coddles and generally made miserable. One evening, Boggs's fiancée, Florence Cole, is invited to George's home for dinner. When Vanderholt, a rival for her hand, explains why Boggs is serving George, Florence is outraged. Seeking revenge, Boggs flirts with George's wife until George becomes insanely jealous, but finally Florence declares that the pact, having been based on a poker game, is illegal.
Director
Lawrence C. Windom
Cast
Taylor Holmes
Robert Conness
Alice Mann
Edna Phillips Holmes
Cecil Owen
Maude Eburne
C. E. Ashley
John Cossar
Byron Aldenn
Virginia Bowker
Tommy Carey
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Wid's attributes the original story to Harry Leon Wilson. Maude Eburne and C. E. Ashley played the same roles in the stage production. The film opened in the larger cities in the latter part of March 1918. Peple's play was filmed again by Paramount-Publix as Queen High in 1930, with Ginger Rogers starring and Fred Newmeyer directing (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.4387).
