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Harriet and the Piper
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Harriet and the Piper

Sep 13, 1920
1h 0m
★ 9.0

She danced, she paid the piper, she wept. Then somebody else paid the piper and she laughed. A picture story you'll really be delighted with.

Overview

Harriet Field, living the Bohemian life in Greenwich Village, is tricked into a mock marriage with the unscrupulous Royal Blondin. She leaves him, taking a job as companion to the wealthy Nina Carter. Blondin reappears during a masquerade ball thrown by the Carters, makes advances to Nina but Harriet intervenes, bringing threats from Blondin to expose her past. When Nina’s faithless mother is killed in a car crash as she elopes with another man Richard Carter persuades Harriet to marry him for the sake of the children. She reveals all to her husband and Richard offers Blondin a hefty sum of money to stay out of Nina's life.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Louis B. Mayer Productions
Anita Stewart Productions

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Cast

Anita Stewart

Harriet Field

Anita Stewart

Ward Crane

Royal Blondin

Ward Crane

Charles Richman

Richard Carter

Charles Richman

Myrtle Stedman

Isabelle Carter

Myrtle Stedman

Byron Munson

Ward Carter

Byron Munson

Loyola O'Connor

Madame Carter

Loyola O'Connor

Irving Cummings

Anthony Pope

Irving Cummings

Barbara La Marr

Tam O'Shanter Girl

Barbara La Marr

Margaret Landis

Nina Carter

Margaret Landis

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Ray Elwyn

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