Love's Greatest Mistake

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Love's Greatest Mistake
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Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Written by Becky Gardiner
Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer
Produced by William LeBaron
Starring Evelyn Brent
Cinematography Leo Tover
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • February 20, 1927 (1927-02-20)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Love's Greatest Mistake is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Evelyn Brent. [1] The film is now lost. [2] [3]

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Plot

Honey McNeil (Josephine Dunn) comes to New York expecting to have a rather dull time under her sister’s chaperonage. But when she walks in on her sister (Evelyn Brent) clasped in the arms of a man other than her husband, Honey complacently adopts the new standard, and plays around with the rich banker she has met on the train (Frank Morgan), to the distress of her poorer, but more sincere sweetheart (James Hall), who naturally mistrusts the really innocent friendship. This is Love’s greatest mistake—lack of faith. The banker writes more or less incriminating letters, which Don Kendall (William Powell) seeks to obtain from Honey for blackmail purposes, but Honey has successfully hidden them. She saves the letters, though she goes to the hospital as a result of her encounter with Don. Foiled of his prey, Don gives out a story to a tabloid and then arranges to elope with the sister. Honey, coming home to the empty flat, out of step with a sweetheart who clumsily offers to marry her “in spite of all,” turns to the banker, but changes her mind just in time and marries the right man. [4]

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References

  1. "Progressive Silent Film List: Love's Greatest Mistake". silentera.com. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  2. Love's Greatest Mistake at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Paramount Pictures 1927 Archived August 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Love's Greatest Mistake". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  4. The Moving Picture World (26 February 1927) p 663.