Opened Shutters

Aug 12, 1921

0h 50m

★ 8.0

A delightful and interesting story of the society set of the larger city telling a beautiful romance.

Overview

When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her uncle, Judge Trent, in New England, where she is unwanted and humiliated. Though she and John Dunham, her uncle's young law partner, fall in love, she believes he intends to marry the daughter of a wealthy neighbor.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Opened Shutters Trailers

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Cast

Sylvia Lacey

Edith Roberts

Sam Lacey

Josef Swickard

Nate Morris

Joseph Singleton

Martha Lacey

Mai Wells

John Dunham

Edmund Burns

Jacob Johnson

Charles Clary

Judge Calvin Trent

Clark Comstock

Dancer Florence Maddis marries Ross Van Beekman, son of an aristocratic New York family, and despite her friends’ doubts manages to fit into the family. Her scheming mother-in-law disapproves of her however colluding with Ned Ormsby, who wants Flo for himself, to make her appear faithless. When Ross suspects Flo of harboring Ormsby, he fires a pistol at her closet. Later when Ormsby is found shot in his house, Ross confesses, believing himself guilty. Sick at heart, Flo returns to the stage of the Winter Palace. Ross is freed, however, when Ormsby’s enemy, Maddox, confesses to the crime, and Flo is happily reconciled with Ross.

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