Billions (1920)
SCANDAL-always sets people talking SCANDAL-in high life is a choice morsel for the gossips...There is a SCANDAL in the photoplay that will astonish you!
60 min
Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses of impoverished poet Owen Carey and becomes his anonymous benefactor. When Owen inherits a fortune from his rich Uncle Krakerfeller, he assumes his uncle's identity and confers his own upon an impoverished friend, Frank Manners. At a resort, Owen meets the princess and falls in love with her, but is chagrined to discover that she is enamored with Manners. The princess finally discovers Owen's real identity and the two fall in love.
- Release date
- December 6, 1920
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Alla Nazimova as Princess Triloff
- Charles Bryant as Krakerfeller
- Charles Bryant as Owen Carey
- William Irving as Frank Manners
- Victor Potel as Pushkin
- John Steppling as Isaac Colben
- Marian Skinner as Mrs. Colben
- Bonnie Hill as Mazie Colben
- Emmett King as John Blanchard
- Eugene Klum as Bellboy
Crew
- Ray C. Smallwood · Director
- Charles Bryant · Writer
- Henry Dupuis-Mazuel · Writer
- Jean-José Frappa · Writer
- Alla Nazimova · Writer
- Rudolph J. Bergquist · Cinematographer
- Alla Nazimova · Editor