Molly Make-Believe


1916

Film Details

Release Date
Apr 17, 1916
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players Film Co.
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (New York, 1910).

Synopsis

Believing that the lovesick and the unhealthy always welcome mail, Molly Meredith opens a letter-writing business to support herself and her young brother Bobby. One of her first subscribers is millionaire Carl Stanton, who never hears from Cornelia Bartlett, his sweetheart in the South, and so asks Molly to write him letters in her place. Although he has never met her, Carl soon falls in love, through the letters, with the woman he calls Molly Make-Believe. When Cornelia finally does write to Carl, it is so she can break off their engagement. Afterward, Carl manages to meet his letter writer, and when Molly-in-the-flesh matches precisely the image he had constructed of Molly Make-Believe, he marries her immediately.

Film Details

Release Date
Apr 17, 1916
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players Film Co.
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (New York, 1910).

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Various plot synopses in the Paramount studio records give the name of the character played by Helen Dahl as either Cornelia Van Dyne or Cornelia Gifford.