Deception (1913)
When she overhears her employer, Banker Trent, tell that his son Jack has gone to Beverly Hills for the summer, typist Virginia Scott bitterly envies the wealth and freedom the young man enjoys. In her shabby room she is inspired with an idea to spend all her savings upon clothes, go to Beverly Hills, pose as a rich woman, and win this most desirable young man for a husband. Her chum Jane agrees to go as her maid. At the fashionable hotel, Virginia and Jane take possession of a splendid suite of rooms. Jack Trent, having invited as his guest, his cousin Jim, has already arrived. Jim is a lover of the good things of life, but is poor and too indolent to make a manly struggle for them. Jack, wishing to be free from social restrictions, so as to sketch and paint, suggests to Jim that he take his name and pose as a millionaire. This Jim is glad to do, and so the men exchange identities. The story of Virginia's wealth, cleverly started by Jane, soon reaches Jim's ears and he makes a set for the millionairess. Virginia, believing Jim to be the son of her employer, is not slow in responding to his overtures. Jim flatters her by having his cousin Jack paint her portrait, which is the beginning of the end, for Virginia and the poor artist fall deeply in love with each other. When Jim finally proposes to Virginia, she has lost all ambition to be the wife of a millionaire and she refuses him, telling him of the lie she has been living. Jim's interest in Virginia falls to zero. At their forest trysting place the girl bids goodbye to Jack and tells him also of her folly, but he joyfully declares that they are quits now, for he too was deceiving in all but his love for her, which Virginia is happy to reciprocate.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| William J. Bauman | Director |
| Mary H. O'Connor | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Myrtle Gonzalez | |
| George Holt | |
| Jane Novak | |
| Thomas Colmensil |
