Billions

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!

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.

Date of release
1920-12-06
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Ray C. Smallwood

Casting

Interesting facts

Billions is a lost 1920 American silent comedy film produced by and starring Alla Nazimova and distributed by Metro Pictures. Ray Smallwood directed. It is based on a French play, L'Homme riche, by Jean Jose Frappa and Henry Dupuy-Mazuel.

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