Beauty's Worth

Prudence Cole is a shy Quaker, dominated by her two old crone aunts. Prudence feels some affection for rich Henry Garrison. Garrison strings her alone for his own amusement, inviting her to a party at his estate.

There, Prudence meets artist Cheyne Rovein, who offers to help Prudence impress Garrison. Rovein designs some costumes for Prudence, then engages the party-goers in a game of charades, highlighted by skits in which Prudence, dressed in various outfits, suggests clues. Suddenly Garrison becomes more interested, but will Prudence end up with him or Rovein?

This film has so many bad things going for it, it's hard to know where to start. Boring pretty much describes it. The charade skits are really stupid, and painful to sit through - I actually started hitting the fast forward button.

Hallam Cooley, as Garrison, looks repulsive, so it's hard to imagine any dame falling for him, even if they wanted his dough. He spends most of the film playing Davies, but then the skits get his manly fluids going - and the same goes for every other guy in the crowd.

Apparently just seeing Davies not wearing her Quaker outfit is the equivalent of taking Viagra. Davies is fair in her acting, Stanley better. June Elvidge, as a woman interested in Cooley, gives a nice performance. Lydia Titus and Thomas Jefferson (not the President) are supporting characters who could easily have been cut from the movie. In fact, a lot of this movie should have been cut. If Davies really wanted to impress Cooley, she should have just had sex with him, which would have taken about five minutes, and the film would have been mercifully over that quickly.