The Snob

Nov 10, 1924

1h 10m

★ 0.0

Overview

Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Eugene Curry

John Gilbert

Nancy Claxton

Norma Shearer

Herrick Appleton

Conrad Nagel

Dorothy Rensheimer

Phyllis Haver

Mrs. Leiter

Hedda Hopper

Mrs. Curry

Margaret Seddon

Lottie

Aileen Manning

Sherwood Claxton

Gordon Sackville

Doctor

Roy Laidlaw

Maid

Nellie Bly Baker

Cecil George is a stenographer to the wealthy Mr. Jeffries but struggling to get by on her meager salary. Eventually Jeffries realizes how much he relies on Cecil and that he loves her. They marry and he entrusts the running of his business to his secretary while they honeymoon. Unfortunately, the secretary speculates for his own benefit and drives Jeffries’s company to ruin. When he suffers a nervous collapse Cecil must take drastic measures to save him.

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