Lessons in Love

May 1, 1921

0h 50m

★ 0.0

Oh! Bashful ones, you'll laugh as you never laughed before! IT'S CONNIE'S GREATEST AND BEST!

Overview

Lawyer Hanover Priestley plots with his friend Henry Winkley to marry off young heiress Leila Calthorpe to Winkley's nephew, John Warren. When John refuses, preferring to select his own wife, they lure him east by a false report of Winkley's death. Indignant at his rebuff, Leila disguises herself as Perkins, a maid, and romances him, leading him to believe that Aunt Agatha is the heiress. Complications develop, and after saving her from a fire John discovers her identity and agrees to marry her.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Constance Talmadge Film Company

Lessons in Love Trailers

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Cast

Leila Calthorpe

Constance Talmadge

Agatha Calthorpe

Flora Finch

Hanover Priestly

George Fawcett

John Warren

Kenneth Harlan

Ruth Warren

Florence Short

Robert Calthorpe

James Harrison

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