Cheap Kisses
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Cheap Kisses is a 1924 silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 drama film starring Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt
Jean Pierre Hersholt was a Danish-born actor who lived in the United States, where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr. Christian and for playing Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi...

 as a famous sculptor. Cheap Kisses was the first film made by screenwriter C. Gardner Sullivan
C. Gardner Sullivan
C. Gardner Sullivan was an American screenwriter and motion picture producer. He was a prolific writer with more than 350 films among his credits. In 1924, the magazine Story World selected him on a list of the ten individuals who had contributed the most to the advancement of the motion picture...

 through his new production company, C. Gardner Sullivan Productions. Sullivan also wrote the screenplay.

Cast

  • Jean Hersholt
    Jean Hersholt
    Jean Pierre Hersholt was a Danish-born actor who lived in the United States, where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr. Christian and for playing Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi...

     - Gustaf Borgstrom
  • Michael Dark - Butterworth Little
  • Sidney DeGray - Henry Dillingham
  • Louise Dresser
    Louise Dresser
    Louise Dresser was an American actress.Born Louise Josephine Kerlin in Evansville, Indiana. Her father was a train conductor who died when she was fifteen years old...

     - Jane Dillingham
  • Bessie Eyton
    Bessie Eyton
    Bessie Eyton was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in some 200 films between 1911 and 1925...

     - Maybelle Wescott
  • Cullen Landis
    Cullen Landis
    Cullen Landis was an American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early years of the silent film era.-Biography:...

     - Donald Dillingham
  • Kathleen Myers - Mignon De Lisle
  • Vera Reynolds
    Vera Reynolds
    -Early life and career:Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1899, she started out as a dancer, worked as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and became a leading lady in silent motion pictures. Among her film credits are starring roles in Sam Wood's Prodigal Daughters , and Cecil B...

     - Kitty Dillingham
  • Lillian Rich
    Lillian Rich
    Lillian Rich was an English actress of the silent era. She appeared in 66 films between 1919 and 1940.She was born in Herne Hill, London and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.-Selected filmography:...

     - Ardell Kendall
  • Tom Ricketts
    Tom Ricketts
    Thomas "Tom" Ricketts was an English American silent film actor, director and screenwriter who was involved in almost 350 motion pictures....

     - The Old Man
  • Phillips Smalley
    Phillips Smalley
    Wendell Phillips Smalley was a prolific American silent film director and actor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smalley began his career in vaudeville and acted in more than 200 films between 1910 until his death in 1939...

     - George Wescott
  • Lincoln Stedman
    Lincoln Stedman
    Lincoln Stedman was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 81 films between 1917 and 1934. A large fat man, Stedman had a career in movies dating back to his boyhood in silent films with his parents...

     - Bill Kendall

Plot summary

The plot focuses on a famous sculptor, Gustaf Borgstrom (played by Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt
Jean Pierre Hersholt was a Danish-born actor who lived in the United States, where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr. Christian and for playing Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi...

). He hires a chorus girl, Ardell Kendall (played by Lillian Rich
Lillian Rich
Lillian Rich was an English actress of the silent era. She appeared in 66 films between 1919 and 1940.She was born in Herne Hill, London and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.-Selected filmography:...

). When Donald Dillingham (played by Cullen Landis
Cullen Landis
Cullen Landis was an American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early years of the silent film era.-Biography:...

) marries the chorus girl, his wealthy parents disown him.
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