Jane Goes A-Wooing (1919)

Genres - Drama  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

When her father, a lunch-wagon owner, dies suddenly, Jane Neill (Vivian Martin) pluckily takes charge of the family business, acting as surrogate mother to her twin sisters. When her added responsibilities threaten to overwhelm her, Jane takes a job as a stenographer for millionaire David Lyman (Spottiswoode Aitken), leaving the lunch stand in the care of her erstwhile boyfriend Micky Donovan (Casson Ferguson). Not long afterward, Lyman also dies, bequeathing his entire fortune to Jane. At first, Jane is inclined to hand the money over to Lyman's nephew Monty (Niles Welch), with whom she has fallen in love. When Monty reveals himself to be a spineless wastrel, Jane elects to return to Donovan, allowing Monty to keep the money anyway. Things turn out well for all concerned when a play written by Monty becomes a hit, whereupon the heretofore worthless nephew hands over all the royalties to Jane and her new husband.

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business, family, inheritance, love, love-conquers-all, millionaire, romance, secretary, self-sacrifice