The Love Expert
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About The Love Expert
Babs Hardcastle is sent home from boarding school for running love experiments instead of studying. Her father, John Hardcastle, packs her off to Aunt Emily in Boston rather than to Palm Beach. Emily has been engaged to Jim Winthrop for six years. He will not marry while two sisters and an elderly aunt depend on him. Babs sends a fake telegram and gets the Boston party, herself included, to Palm Beach. Emily, left behind, marries a college professor. Jim is not broken by the news. Babs applies one of her remedies.
Cast & crew
More about The Love Expert
David Kirkland directed. John Emerson and Anita Loos wrote it. Constance Talmadge produced it and plays Babs. Oliver Marsh photographed it. First National released it on April 18, 1920, in six reels. A film-magazine synopsis supplies the plot. Wikipedia calls the picture surviving.
Themes
Making
Loos and Emerson build the comedy on Babs arranging other people's engagements.
Look
Oliver Marsh photographed the Boston household and the Palm Beach party.
Preservation
Wikipedia lists it among surviving silent films.
Notes
- The punishment is Boston, not Palm Beach. Babs reverses it with a fake telegram.
- Emily's fiancé is Jim Winthrop. The obstacle is his unmarried sisters and an aunt.
- Talmadge's own company made it. First National distributed it.
- A magazine plot is the source for the boarding-school expulsion and the professor Emily marries.
Scenes
- Babs is sent to Boston instead of Palm Beach.
- A fake telegram moves the Boston party south.
