Alias Mary Dow
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Cast & Crew
Kurt Neumann
Sally Eilers
Raymond Milland
Henry O'neill
Katharine Alexander
Chick Chandler
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Eighteen years after her daughter Mary disappeared, Evelyn Dow contracts pneumonia. In her delerium, she calls for Mary, and the doctor, not knowing the story, recommends that her husband Henry bring their daughter to her bedside to ease her anguish. Believing his wife to be dying, Henry asks a friendly young waitress, Sally Gates, to impersonate Mary. Her appearance eases Evelyn's mind so much that she recovers against all odds and Henry begs Sally to continue the masquerade. Sally is happy for a time but, unwilling to continue lying to a woman she has come to love, and missing her old friends, she runs off one night to the dance hall where she used to go after work. She wins a contest with her former boyfriend Jimmie Kane, but soon realizes that she does not fit in here anymore either. A dog, belonging to wealthy young Peter Marshall, follows her home when she leaves the dance. She meets Peter when she reluctantly returns his dog to him and is attracted to him against her will. A few days later, Evelyn and Sally plan a trip to Europe to complete Evelyn's convalescence. While they are gone, Henry formally announces that his daughter has been found. After Peter sees the news in the papers, he visits Sally in Europe and they fall in love. Sally is afraid to tell Peter the truth about her background. One night, they take a cab driven by Jimmie, who uses his information about Sally's real identity to extort money from Peter during a party at the Dow residence. Martin, a waiter at the party, overhears their negotiations and takes over the blackmail scheme. Sally, meanwhile, leaves the party and returns to her old neighborhood, determined to fool Jimmie into believing that she is not the same woman who is living with Henry and Evelyn. Martin sees her there, and thinking that she is Mary's double, suggests that she pretend to be the real Mary. Sally learns from Martin that he knows she cannot be the real Mary because he was the person responsible for young Mary's kidnapping and murder. The police capture Martin, and Peter, who loves Sally for herself, announces his engagement to her. Later, Henry starts to tell Evelyn the truth about the woman she thinks is her daughter, but she stops him, preferring to enjoy what she has.
Director
Kurt Neumann
Cast
Sally Eilers
Raymond Milland
Henry O'neill
Katharine Alexander
Chick Chandler
Addison Richards
Lola Lane
Clarence Muse
Maude Turner Gordon
Corbet Morris
Phyllis Crane
Alice Ardell
Nam Didot
Harry Lipman
Alphonse Martell
Sammy Blum
Nell Craig
Arthur Stuart Hull
Leah Winslow
Alan Bridge
Monte Montague
Frank Adams
Earl Eby
Hal Cook
Frank Holliday
William "billy" Newell
Pat Gleason
Eddy Chandler
Ray Cooke
Andy Rice Jr.
John Carradine
Stanley Andrews
Emmett Vogan
Anne Darling
Bill Roberts
Marina Passerowa
Mary Wallace
Bernadine Hayes
Robert Dalton
Vera Lewis
Jane Meredith
Charles Fallon
Gene Perry
Major Farrell
Lois Verner
Lillian Elliott
Jane Barnes
Arnold Dorff
Lillian West
Frances Norris
Lillian Irene
Mary Maclaren
Marion Lessing
Alene Carroll
Grace Cunard
Marie Quillan
Winifred Drew
Baby Jane
Crew
Bakaleinikoff
Ralph Berger
Fred Buckley
Arthur Caesar
Phil Cohn
William Dodds
Fred Frank
Rose Franken
Mary Frey
John P. Fulton
King Gray
Archie Hall
Forrest Halsey
Lester Heineman
William Hitchcock
William Allen Johnston
Phil Karlstein
John Kemp
Carl Laemmle
Dixie Martin
Harry Moran
Warren Munroe
Horace New
Ted Offenbeck
Lou Ostrow
Jack Parker
Fred Parkinson
Freda Rosenblatt
George Schuman
Gladys Unger
Joseph Valentine
Ed Ware
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The film's pre-release title was Lost Identity.
