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The Love Expert
Overview
After neglecting her studies in favor of romantic experiments, Babs Hardcastle is thrown out of boarding school. In hopes of ceasing her romance studies, Babs’s father sends her to Boston to stay with her aunt. Boston, however, proves to be the perfect place for Babs’s matchmaking. When Babs falls in love with Jim Winthrop, she learns that he must find suitable men for his two sisters, Dorcas and Matilda, and his elderly aunt Cornelia, before he can marry. Babs, determined to marry Jim, takes it upon herself to find them all husbands.
Director and cast
- David Kirkland Director
- Constance Talmadge as Barbara “Babs” Hardcastle
- John Halliday as Jim Winthrop
- Arnold Lucy as Mr. Hardcastle
- Natalie Talmadge as Dorcas Winthrop
- Fannie Bourke as Matilda Winthrop
- Nellie Parker Spaulding as Aunt Cornelia
- Marion Sitgreave as Aunt Emily
- James Spottswood as Mr. Thompson
- David Kirkland as Mr. Smithers
- Edward Keppler Cast
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