Snobs
Cast & Crew
Oscar Apfel
Victor Moore
Anita King
Constance Johnson
Ernest Joy
Florence Dagmar
Film Details
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Synopsis
When Mr. Phipps, a nearly bankrupt lawyer, accidentally discovers that milkman Henry Disney is the heir to the title and twenty million dollar fortune of the Duke of Walshire, he and his sister Laura plot to have Henry marry her before he learns about the inheritance. They arrange to have Henry blackjacked and carried to their home, where Laura can nurse and seduce him. Because Henry earlier rescued and fell in love with debutante Ethel Hamilton, he resists Laura. When he discovers a letter concerning his inheritance, Henry shops extravagantly, has his coat-of-arms stitched on all his clothes and takes rooms at the town's most expensive hotel. No longer socially inferior to Ethel, Henry throws a ball in her honor, but when he announces his love, she rebukes him and the social snobs who fawn at him but mock him behind his back. After Henry returns to his milk route, Ethel finds him and agrees to instruct him in the art of being a duke.
Director
Oscar Apfel
Cast
Victor Moore
Anita King
Constance Johnson
Ernest Joy
Florence Dagmar
Jode Mullally
Film Details
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Notes
This film opened in New York on April 11, 1915. The Motion Picture News review credits Cecil B. DeMille as the director. The copyright entry credits DeMille and George Bronson Howard as authors. This was Victor Moore's first film. It was re-issued on October 20, 1918 by Famous Players-Lasky Corp. in its Success Series. The copyright entry gives the film's subtitle as "A Picturization of the Society Satire."
