She Loves and Lies

She Loves and Lies
She Loves and Lies
Directed by	Chester Withey
Written by	Grant Cooper; Chester Withey
Based on	short story, She Loves and Lies, by Wilkie Collins writing in Romantic Tales c.1885
Produced by	Joseph Schenck
Starring	Norma Talmadge; Conway Tearle
Cinematography	David Abel
Production; company	Norma Talmadge Film Corporation
Distributed by	Select Pictures
Release date	January 1920;
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

She Loves and Lies is a 1920 American silent comedy drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Norma Talmadge, Conway Tearle, and Octavia Broske.^[1]

An incomplete surviving print is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.^[2]^[3]

The film had the working title Two Women.

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[4] Marie Callender (Talmadge) becomes engaged to a wealthy Lothario, but regrets it after Ernest Lismore (Tearle), who is in financial difficulties, rescues her from a burning building. She breaks the engagement but is left the wealthy man's fortune. Learning of Ernest's predicament, she poses as an elderly woman and proposes that Ernest marry her to save himself from financial ruin. He agrees, and after their marriage Marie poses as a painter in the bohemian quarter of the city to see if Ernest will love her. After several difficulties Marie removes her wig and Ernest happily discovers that she is the painter who won his heart.