Fool Proof

A 1924 Neal Burns comedy. To show his son that there’s more to life than work, a rich man pretends he is getting married to a chorus girl.

Cast

Neal Burns

as Jack

Lincoln Plumer

as Jack’s father

Natalie Joyce

as Chorus girl

Vera Steadman

as Mary Wilson

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