Directed by:
Cecil B. DeMilleCinematography:
Alvin WyckoffCast:
Cleo Ridgely, Wallace Reid, Edythe Chapman, Raymond Hatton, Lucien Littlefield, Horace B. CarpenterPlots(1)
The drama of a woman who should have changed husbands long before she did, The Golden Chance, almost forgotten today, is one of Cecil B. DeMille's superlative early efforts. Against her family's wishes, beautiful and well-bred Mary (Cleo Ridgeley) has married Steve Denby (H. B. Carpenter), a criminal lout whose alcoholism has reduced the couple to destitution in a one-room slum apartment. Mary finds work as dressmaker to a society woman (Edythe Chapman) who is organizing a dinner party to help her husband close a business deal with an eligible millionaire (Wallace Reid). Transformed like Cinderella, Mary substitutes for a guest who is unable to come at the last minute. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Cleo Ridgely
USA
Best movies:
Joan the Woman (1916)
Wallace Reid
USA
Best movies:
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Joan the Woman (1916)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Edythe Chapman
USA
Best movies:
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
The King of Kings (1927)
Raymond Hatton
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Lucien Littlefield
USA
Best movies:
The Little Foxes (1941)
Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Horace B. Carpenter
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Dodge City (1939)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)