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Her Splendid Folly

Her Splendid Folly

A TRAGIC DRAMA WITH A HAPPY ENDING

NR 1933 · 60 min · ★ 7.0 · Romance, Adventure, Comedy

Solomon Ginsberg is the President of International Pictures Corporation and hires Joan McAllister, an unemployed stenographer, to double for his star, Laura Girard. While on a location trip, Laura is killed in an automobile accident, and in order to save the money already invested in the film Ginsberg, aided by the film's leading-man, Wallace Morely, with whom Joan is more than a little infatuated, persuades Joan to assume the identity of the dead actress, whose death is being concealed.

Directed by William A. O'Connor · Written by Willis Kent

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