The Clever Mrs. Carfax

📅 1917 ⏱️ 50 min 🎭 Comedy, Drama

📋 Details

🎬 Director

Donald Crisp

✍️ Writers

Gardner Hunting

🎥 Producers

Jesse L. Lasky

🌍 Countries

United States of America

🏢 Production

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company

🗣️ Languages

No Language

🎭 Genres

Comedy Drama

📖 Overview

Newspaper publisher Temple Trask, who answers the “Letters to the Lovelorn” column under the nom-de-plume “Mrs. Carfax,” becomes the hit of his college reunion when he revives his female impersonation act. Returning home, Temple meets Billy Wise, another college friend, who wagers one hundred dollars that Temple will not go into a restaurant dressed as a woman. He takes the dare, then sees Helen Scott in the restaurant and, although he is a cynic who does not like women because he knows too much about them, he falls in love. When he notices that Adrian Graw, a crook whom Temple knew when he was a cub reporter, is after Helen’s fortune, Temple, impersonating Mrs. Carfax, accompanies Helen and her grandmother, Mrs. Keyes, aboard a steamer to protect them. A lost film.