She faked it till she made it — into the wrong heart.
The pretty young stenographer in a New York lawyer's office had two weeks' vacation coining to her, and decided for once in her life she would cut a dash in society. She expended what for her was an enormous amount of money on clothes, and went to a fashionable seashore resort.
Costume
The stenographer's vacation wardrobe — her entire savings on display
Acting
Mignon Anderson's exaggerated silent-film longing
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Florence La Badie appears uncredited here — she became Thanhouser Company's biggest star before her mysterious 1917 death from injuries.
1912 audiences loved 'shopgirl' narratives where working women temporarily accessed wealth through wit, not marriage — radical for the era.
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