''In Pursuit of Polly'' is a lost 1918 American silent comedy-drama film starring

Billie Burke Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North ...

and

Thomas Meighan Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading-man roles opposite popular actresses of the day, including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he co ...

. It was produced by

Famous Players-Lasky Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company—originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays—and ...

and released by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

As described in a

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, Polly Marsden (Burke) is told by her father Buck Marsden (Losee) that she must choose from among her three suitors. She decides to settle it by a race. She is to be given an hour head start and agrees to bestow her hand upon the first one who catches her. In trying to elude her pursuers, she is mistaken for the confederate of a German spy. When the three suitors catch her, they discover that her heart and hand have been won by secret service agent Colby Mason (Meighan).

Cast

as Polly Marsden *

as Colby Mason * Frank Losee as Buck Marsden *A. J. Herbert as Talbot Sturgis * William B. Davidson as Larry O'Malley * Alfred Hickman as O'Leary * Ben Deeley as Emile Kremer

References

External links

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AllMovie.com
1918 films American silent feature films Lost American films Films directed by Chester Withey Paramount Pictures films 1918 comedy-drama films American comedy-drama films American black-and-white films 1918 lost films Lost comedy-drama films 1910s American films Silent comedy-drama films Silent American drama films Silent American comedy films {{silent-comedy-drama-film-stub