A Sailor's Sweetheart
Top 7 Billed Cast
Cynthia Botts
Sandy McTavish
Claudette Ralston
Detective
Mark Krisel
Lena Svenson
Professor Meekham
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Cynthia Botts, the headmistress of a girls’ school, stands to inherit a fortune on the condition that no scandal ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of con man Mark Krisel, is just around the corner.
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1927-09-24
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