Comedy · United States of America · 1920 · 1h 10m

Help Yourself

Help Yourself poster
Director
Hugo Ballin
Cast
Madge Kennedy as Emily Ray Roy Applegate as Alfonso Helen Greene as Rosamonde Vallant E.J. Ratcliffe as Merlin Vallant Joseph Striker as Oliver Browning Mrs. David Landau as Aunt Carmen
Crew
J. Roy Hunt — Director of Photography Wallace Irwin — Novel
Synopsis

Emily Ray, who works in a department store, is taken in by her wealthy Aunt Carmen. Emily falls in love with Oliver Browning, but her aunt dismisses him as a nobody and a fortune hunter. Emily's wealthy married cousin, Rosamonde Vallant, always trying to keep up with the latest fads, gives a party in honor of Professor Syle, a distinguished radical who lectures her guests in "parlor Bolshevism," then takes them to Greenwich Village to meet his comrades.

Mood & Themes
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Key Collaborators
Hugo Ballin Director J. Roy Hunt Director of Photography Wallace Irwin Novel
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