Father and the Boys

Father and the Boys

1915 · 55 min · Comedy, Drama

Wealthy stockbroker Lemuel Morewood wants his sons, Billy and Tom, to learn the business and marry Emily Donelson and Frances Berkeley, respectively. Billy, however, is infatuated with Mrs. Bruce Guilford, a leader of the "smart set," while Tom loves boxing. At a dinner for which Lemuel hires Bessie Brayton, an orphan from the West, to entertain, Lemuel responds to Bessie's taunts about being old-fashioned by winning a lot of money gambling with Major Bellamy Didsworth, who tries to swindle Bessie, and leaves with her to spend it.

Directed by Joseph De Grasse · Written by George Ade

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Digby Bell Lemuel Morewood
Louise Lovely Bessie Brayton
Harry Ham William Rufus Morewood
Colin Chase Thomas Jefferson Morewood
Yona Landowska Emily Donelson
Hayward Mack Maj. Bellamy Didsworth
Mae Gaston Frances Berkeley
Lon Chaney Tuck Bartholomew
Harry Davenport Tobias Ford
Tom Chatterton
Doc Crane
Jean Hathaway

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