Silk Hosiery

Silk Hosiery is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Niblo and starring Enid Bennett.^[1] A print listed as being in nitrate exists in the Library of Congress and another in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.^[2][3][4]

Silk Hosiery
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Directed by	Fred Niblo
Written by	Frank Mitchell Dazey
Produced by	Thomas H. Ince
Starring	Enid Bennett Geoffrey Webb
Cinematography	George Barnes
Edited by	Charles H. Kyson Harry Marker
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 26, 1920 (1920-12-26)
Running time	5 reels (1,388.65 meters)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

As summarized in a film publication,^[5] Marjorie Bowen (Bennett) is a model who longs for romance and adventure of the story book variety, but never gets further than displaying gowns at an ultra-fashionable clothing shop. Every customer who comes in is buying a gown for a ball thrown by some Prince. Yvette (Pavis), a French woman, comes to order a gown and brings her fiance Sir Leeds (Webb), who immediately attracts Marjorie's attention, but she loses hope after she hears that he is engaged. Marjorie stays alone in the shop to deliver the gown to Yvette and dresses herself in the costume. Some crook business follows in which Yvette and an idler are implicated. Marjorie gets mixed up in it and ends up kidnapped and in a room with Sir Leeds, who tries to explain what happened. They escape and Marjorie impresses the Prince (Ghent) by recovering a note and piece of jewelry that the Prince had indiscreetly given a New York society woman and which he feared would be used against him. Leeds turns out to be a detective. He asks Marjorie to marry him.

Cast

• Enid Bennett as Marjorie Bowen
• Geoffrey Webb as Sir Derwain Leeds
• Marie Pavis as Yvette Fernau
• Donald MacDonald as Cadwallader Smith
• Derek Ghent as Prince Ferdinandi (credited as Derrick Ghent)
• Otto Hoffman as Van Twiller
• Joan Standing as Sophia Black
• Verne Winter as Billy Black (credited as Vern Winters)
• Harold Holland as Jim Shanahan
• Bonnie Hill as Mollie Milligan
• Sylvia Brooks as Mrs. De Windt
• Rose Dione as Madame Louise