Help Wanted - Male (1920) – Short Movie Database

Help Wanted - Male

1920

Comedy

Synopsis

Leona Stafford receives a legacy of $1000 and invests it in a scheme to catch a rich husband. After purchasing a new wardrobe, Leona goes to a fashionable resort hotel where she poses as a widow with a mysterious past. She arouses the suspicions of the hotel clerk, a correspondence school sleuth, who suspects that she has kidnapped Captain Cromwell, a wealthy aviator who has been missing for several days. Desperate, Leona appeals for help to Tubbs, whom she believes to be an idle tramp. Tubbs wins her love before he discloses himself as the missing aviator, causing Leona to heave a sigh of relief that her search for a husband has ended.

Credits

Director

Henry King

Cast

Blanche Sweet as Leona Stafford

Frank Leigh as Clerk

Henry King as Tubbs

Jay Belasco as Lieutenant

Jean Acker as Ethel

Kid the Dog as Toodles

Mayme Kelso as Mrs. Dale

Thomas Jefferson as Harris