Daughters Who Pay

1925 film

May 10, 1925 (1925-05-10)

Running time

6 reelsCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Daughters Who Pay is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by George Terwilliger, starring Marguerite De La Motte and John Bowers, and featuring Béla Lugosi as Serge Romonsky.^[1]

Plot

Margaret Smith attempts to save her brother by visiting Henry Foster, from whom her brother stole, but Foster refuses leniency. Sonia Borisoff, a Broadway dancer, visits Foster with the offer that she will break her engagement with Dick Foster, the son of the wealthy man, if Margaret's brother is given a pardon. He accepts. In the presence of a crowd of Russian Reds, Sonia makes love to their leader when Dick appears. He is indignant, but Sonia then insults the Communist leader after Dick leaves. The Reds lure her to a lonely house where they plan to kill her, but Dick intervenes. Some of the Reds again corner her in her apartment, but secret service men arrest them. Margaret and Sonia are then revealed to be the same young woman and to be an agent of the secret service. She and Dick then wed.^[2]

Cast

Marguerite De La Motte as Sonia Borisoff / Margaret Smith
John Bowers as Dick Foster
J. Barney Sherry as Henry Foster
Béla Lugosi as Serge Romonsky
Marie Schaefer as Aunt Mary (credited as Marie Shaffer)
Joseph Striker as Larry Smith

Preservation

A print of Daughters Who Pay exists at George Eastman House.^[3]

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: Daughters Who Pay at silentera.com
^ "New Pictures: Daughters Who Pay", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (12): 59, June 13, 1925, retrieved April 3, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "Daughters Who Pay". Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.