Borrowed Plumes (I) (1916) User Reviews

Good little moral drama with lessons about sexual harassment in the work place!

[Larry41OnEbay-2 · 6/10 · 17 September 2018]

You would think that things would have improved... Dorothy Phillips plays Marjorie Welch a model in a small office that get an invitation to a fancy dress dance. The office manager Ward Simpson (played by Joseph W. Girard) not only makes passes a the pretty model but says if she wants to keep her job she better go out with him after work! But the shops owner Hugh Bryant (played by the director Ben F. Wilson) interrupts and says there are buyers that want to see the latest Paris designer dresses. A small fashion show takes place and soon at quitting time the men are working on paperwork and Welch is admiring the dress she wore int he fashion show and decides to sneak it out just to wear at the party. Simpson spying on her sees her sneak the dress into a box and out of the office. He calls a private detective to meet him outside her apartment later... Meanwhile the big heart-ed boss over hears and follows. At her apartment while trying on the dress again Simpson barges in using a key he got from the landlady. He demands Welch go out to dinner with him or he will get the detective waiting in the hall! Just then the boss Bryant arrives and says not only did he give her the dress but her's a ring to prove he has the right! Ashamed Simpson leaves. Welch is embarrassed but Bryant assures her he's loved her a long time and he really does want to marry her, if she will have them. The films ends with them at the door billing and cooing as she will finish getting dressed and he will take her to the dance.