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The Amazing Impostor is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Lloyd Ingraham released in USA on 2 february 1919 with Mary Miles Minter

The Amazing Impostor (1919)

The Amazing Impostor
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Released in USA 2 february 1919
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OriginUSA
Genres Comedy

The Amazing Impostor is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film starring Mary Miles Minter and directed by Lloyd Ingraham.



^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Amazing Impostor

^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Amazing Impostor at silentera.com

^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Amazing Impostor

Synopsis

As described in a film magazine, the daughter of the "chewing gum king" Joan Hope (Minter) has social aspirations, but is held back by the fact that her father manufactures gum. She meets a countess (Shelby) on a train, who offers to lend Joan her title for a week if she will hold a package for her. Joan accepts, not knowing that the "countess" is actually a thief and that the package contains stolen diamonds. Joan passes herself off as a countess at a big hotel, and detective Kent Standish (Forrest) begins to shadow her. The countess and her gang of crooks try to recover the package of diamonds, causing several entangling situations until Joan escapes with the detective, whom she has come to love.

Actors

Mary Miles Minter

(Joan Hope)Margaret Shelby

(Countess of Crex)Carl Stockdale

(Robert La Rue)Allan Forrest

(Kent Standish)George Periolat

(Henry Hope)Henry Arthur Barrows

(Herbert Thornton (as Henry Barrows))
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