Cheap Kisses is a 1924 American silent film drama film starring Jean Hersholt as a famous sculptor. This was the first film made by screenwriter C. Gardner Sullivan through his new production company, C. Gardner Sullivan Productions. Sullivan also wrote the screenplay.[ Progressive Silent Film List: Cheap Kisses at silentera.com] The film was described as "a virile, fast-moving, jazzy story of the present day and age. It shows the peril to the youth of the land along the cocktail, Making out route."
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,
Donald Dillingham (Landis) marries a chorus girl, Ardell Kendall (Rich), and his wealthy family turn him down, but when they learn that the celebrated sculptor,
Gustaf Borgstrom (Hersholt), who is being lionized by society, has selected Ardell as the most beautiful American woman, they call on Donald and insist that he and Ardell and Borgstrom visit their big estate. Among the jazzy crowd present is an adventuress, Maybelle Westcott (Eyton), and Donald falls for her. Ardell, using as a lever his father's infatuation for a
showgirl, gets money from him and then buys Maybelle off and exposes her when she does not live up to her bargain. Donald resents her attitude and she leaves him. Returning to their home she finds Donald, contrite, is already there and she forgives him.
Cast
Preservation
With no prints of
Cheap Kisses located in any film archives,
[ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Cheap Kisses] it is a
lost film.
External links
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target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Still at silenthollywood.com
