''The Fair Pretender'' is a 1918 American silent

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, directed by Charles Miller. It stars

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, Tom Moore, and Robert Walker, and was released on May 18, 1918.

Cast list

as Sylvia Maynard * Tom Moore as Don Meredith * Robert Walker as Harcourt * Paul Doucet as Ramon Gonzales * Wilmer Walter as Captain Milton Brown *

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as Townsend * John Terry as Freddie * Charles Slattery as Barnum *

Florence Billings Florence Billings (born 1895) was an American film actress of the silent era.Goble p. 131 Selected filmography * ''The Spreading Dawn'' (1917) * ''By Right of Purchase'' (1918) * ''The Fair Pretender'' (1918) * ''Woman'' (1918) * '' A Romance o ...

as Marjorie Townsend * Grace Stevens as Mrs. Townsend

Preservation status

*This film is listed as surviving in the Spanish archive: Instituto Valenciano De Cinematografia,

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The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:''The Fair Pretender''
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* * * (plot by Hal Erickson) American silent feature films Silent American drama films 1918 drama films 1918 films Films directed by Charles Miller American black-and-white films 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub