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The Wager and the Wage Earners (1911)
Short | Drama, Short

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The Wager and the Wage Earners (1911)

Short | Drama, Short

A little heiress, who is in danger of being forced be her mercenary papa into a marriage for title and rank, decides to take the law into her own hands, and answering an advertisement for a young woman in an office, she leaves home ...See moreA little heiress, who is in danger of being forced be her mercenary papa into a marriage for title and rank, decides to take the law into her own hands, and answering an advertisement for a young woman in an office, she leaves home secretly, accepts the position and engages board at a little downtown boarding house under another name. About the same time a young man, one of a group in the club one evening, hears the old fellow say that the youths of today are incapable of any real accomplishment even of earning their own living half the time. He takes up the challenge and makes a wager that he can earn his own living for a month without any pull or assistance from anybody and prove himself a man indeed. Of course love brings him to the same office where the young lady had found employment and they become fellow employees, each believing the other to be a poor wage earner. The usual office routine is hard for both of them and when any troubles come up they comfort each other and are thus drawn together. The young heiress is advertised for and very nearly caught, but not quite, and the young man preserves his incognito until he is quite sure that there is but one girl in the world for him and that she is this poor little wage earner. She realizes that life without a family or friends is rather a dreary affair and that this humble wage earner is probably the only man in the world for her, particularly as she can have plenty of money any time she chooses to ask for it. And so they agree to marry and after the ceremony, he takes her to his apartment, thinking that he has a great joke on her. But when she takes from her little bag a copy of the advertisement and shows him the headlines, which tell of her broken engagement with a count, of who of really is and of the enormous reward offered for information concerning her, the young man realizes that the laugh is not all on one side. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Robert Conness Van Bibber Van Bibber See fewer	Gladiola (1915)
Mary Fuller Actress Actress See fewer	The Huntress of Men (1916)
Frank McGlynn Sr. Actor Actor See fewer	Captain Blood (1935)
William Bechtel Actor Actor See fewer	The Three Musketeers: Part 1 (1911)