The Highest Bidder

Jan 1, 1921

1h 0m

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Overview

Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

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Cast

Sally Raeburn

Madge Kennedy

Lester

Lionel Atwill

Hastings

Vernon Steele

Fanny de Witt (as Ellen Cassity)

Ellen Cassidy

Mrs. Steese

Zelda Sears

Horace Ashe

Joseph Brennan

Mawsby

Reginald Mason

Butts

Brian Darley

Mr. Steese

William Black

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