Volume II: Filmography

AND HE NEVER KNEW

(Princess)

March 5, 1915 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel (1,015 feet)

Character: Comedy-drama

Director: Arthur Ellery

Scenario: Arthur Ellery

Cast: F. White (John Beresford), Kenneth Clarendon (Kenneth, his son), Reenie Farrington (René, his daughter), Boyd Marshall (Boyd Townsend), John Reinhard (the count), Edward N. Hoyt (the lawyer)

Note: Reenie Farrington, the screen name of Irene Farrington (daughter of Thanhouser actor Frank Farrington), was designated as "Rene" (however, never with an accent, as "René") and "Renee," in addition to Reenie, in various publicity. In the present film, she is "Rene" in the cast listing in Reel Life (issue of February 27, 1915) and in the role name as well.

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, February 27, 1915:

"René, daughter of John Beresford, the bank president, is in despair because her father objects to her marrying Boyd Townsend, who is poor. When her brother introduces into their home 'my friend, the count,' the quick-witted girl sees that here is an individual who is after her money. She works until she succeeds in exposing the impostor, and then she orders him from the house. Meanwhile an uncle of young Townsend's has died. René goes to her lawyer and has fifty thousand dollars of her own money put in Boyd Townsend's name as having been left him by his uncle. They are married with Beresford's blessing. After the ceremony Boyd takes René with him to the very lawyer who handles René's affairs and directs him to put the money, which he believes he has inherited, in his wife's name. And so Boyd never finds out René's clever ruse."

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