The Real Impostor (1913)
Dabble is a poverty-stricken artist. He finds it impossible to market his paintings and is down to his last nickel. His clothes are threadbare and he is all in. Just at this time he is asked to be best man for his pal, Jack Newsome, a newspaper man, whose affianced is Marie Tryon. Dabble's expostulations with Newsome come to naught and he is made to promise. He is taken to Marie's house, where he meets her mother and father, and sister Lillian, with whom he falls in love. Count de Blufo is courting Lillian, however, to her mother's great approval. Her mother has ambitions of seeing her daughter marry a title. Lillian has nothing but disgust for the Count, but shows a decided interest in Dabble and visits him at his studio in company with her mother. Dabble becomes desperate, finding that he must absolutely secure a suit of clothes. He sees a sandwich man advertising a tailor, and, acting on an idea, he proposes a scheme to the tailor whereby he will earn a suit of clothes, and the tailor agrees. With the aid of Newsome, Dabble attracts business and attention for the tailor, appearing disguised as the Duke de Breton on the street before the tailor's place of business. In this disguise he is introduced to Lillian and her mother. As a Duke, the mother is favored to Dabble and ignores the Count, until the latter, discovering the deception, tells them all. Then Newsome, in order to save his pal from ignominy, tells the public in an article that Dabble was disguised on a bet, and at the same time boosts his paintings. Lillian's father considers Dabble a good sport and gives him a big order to paint his horses. This starts Dabble on the road to fame. Later, at a dinner given in his honor at the café, the party is waited upon by the Count De Blufo, who is then discovered to be a waiter, and Dabble easily gains the consent of the mother to marry Lillian.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Freddie Fralick | |
| Johnnie Fields | |
| Gladys Cumi Rutledge | |
| Dolly Larkin |
