Prudence on Broadway

Synopsis

Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.

Main Cast

Olive Thomas

Prudence

Age : 25 | Popularity : 4%

Francis McDonald

Grayson Mills

Age : 77 | Popularity : 8%

Harvey Clark

John Melbourne

Age : 52 | Popularity : 3%

J.P. Wild

John Ogilvie

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Alberta Lee

Mrs. Ogilvie

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Lillian West

Mrs. Allen Wentworth

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Edward Peil Sr.

Mr. Wentworth

Age : 75 | Popularity : 10%

Mary Warren

Kitty

Age : 62 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Frank Borzage
Crew	Cinematography	Pliny Horne
Writing	Writer	Catherine Carr
Department	Role	Name

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