All she knew of life....was love....and that....only as a thing men bargained for.
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York.
Alexandre Dumas fils
August Peters
Andrew Volstead
Mike
Olympe
Lord Kyne
Nan
Alice Brown
Radavanni
Angèle Hemingway
Estelle
Kitty
Sadie
Queenie
Prince von Lindenstein
Gaston
Grace
Philippe
Agatha
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