Up the Ladder (1925)
A woman secretly sells her ancestral home in order to fund her sweetheart's new invention, a videophone, and then marries him when his fortune is made, only to be betrayed by his affair with her best friend.
Top billed cast
Virginia ValliJane Cornwall
Forrest StanleyJames Van Clinton
Margaret LivingstonHelene Newhall
Holmes HerbertRobert Newhall
Lydia Yeamans TitusHannah, Jane's Old Nurse
Priscilla MoranPeggy
William V. MongRichards
George FawcettJudge Seymour
Olive Ann AlcornDancer
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