When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante "Doctor Bobs" watch over her family, especially her youngest daughter Patricia. The family has been raised in a most unconventional manner, with Mona having a much younger lover and the father Ralph keeping his own lover on the side. As Patricia grows older, she attracts the attention of her mother's former lover, the much older (than Patricia, who in the book is in her early to mid teens) Carey Scott. Patricia tempts fate with her wild ways, nearly loses her virtue to a musician aboard an ocean-going boat, and is saved in time by Carey. Realizing that he is the man for her, she settles down into an experimental marriage.
Directed by John Francis Dillon
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Cast
Colleen Moore
Patricia Fentriss
Milton Sills
Cary Scott
Elliott Dexter
Dr. Bobs
Sylvia Breamer
Dee Fentriss
Myrtle Stedman
Mona Fentriss
Betty Francisco
Connie Fentriss
Phillips Smalley
Ralph Fentriss
Walter McGrail
Jamieson James
Ben Lyon
Monty Standish
George Barraud
Fred Browning
John Patrick
Warren Graves
Gino Corrado
Leo Stenak
Gertrude Astor
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Michael Dark
Sidney Rathbone
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