False Pretenses (1935)

Irene Ware, Sidney Blackmer, Russell Hopton, Betty Compson, Edward Gargan ... see more  , Herbert Clifton , Lucy Beaumont , Wilson Benge , Dot Farley , William Humphrey , Marshall Ruth , Frank O'Connor , John Picorri , Jack Shutta , Al Thompson , Florence Dudley

Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as lunch-counter waitress Mary Beekman, who intends to crash society and land a wea... read more lthy husband. She is helped along by affable millionaire Kenneth Alden (Sidney Blackmer), who loves Mary but won't admit it. Our heroine winds up with retired bootlegger Pat Brennan (Russell Hopton), who mistakenly believes that Mary is a bonafide member of the "The 400." What starts out dramatically ends comically, with everyone -- even the unsympathetic characters -- getting what he or she really wants out of life. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi