Two young clerks in a department store meet and fall in love during a seaside vacation in Maine, but part as strangers because, unknown to each other, both had been masquerading as upper-class 'swells', just to see how the better half lives.
Acting
Edith Taliaferro's expressive silent-era physical comedy
Production
Early Maine seaside location shooting, rare for 1915
Director
George Melford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Edith Taliaferro was a major stage star making her screen debut here; audiences knew her face before Hollywood owned it.
The 'swell' masquerade plot obsessed 1910s America—class mobility anxiety dressed up as romantic farce.
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