# The Golden Chance

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This film was remade in 1921 as Forbidden Fruit, also directed by DeMille.
Cast and Crew :
| Cast ||
| Role | Actor |
| | Cleo Ridgely |
| | Wallace Reid |
| | Ernest Joy |
| | Raymond Hatton |
| Crew ||
| Distributor | Paramount Pictures |
| Director | Cecil B. DeMille (d. 1959) |
| Producer | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Screenwriter | Jeanie MacPherson (d. 1946) |
| Editor | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Production designer | Wilfred Buckland |
| Based on available information, the latest crew member that is relevant to international copyright laws died in 1959, meaning that this film may be in the public domain in countries and jurisdictions with 64 years p.m.a. or less, as well as in the United States. ||
Jesse L. Lasky Presents
Cleo Ridgely and Wallace Reid in The Golden Chance by Jeanie Macpherson
Copyrighted 1915 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. (Inc.)
Produced by the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co, Inc. and distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation.
The Golden Chance
Produced by Cecil B. DeMille Photographed by Alvin Wyckoff Art Director Wilfred Buckland
Mr. & Mrs. Hillary of the "Smart Set." Ernest Joy and Edythe Chapman
Wallace Reid as Roger Manning A Millionaire
Jimmy, the "Rat"
Raymond Hatton
Steve Denby
H. B. Carpenter
Beer
Cleo Ridgely as Mary Denby His Wife
High Finance.
"If you can raise half a million, you can swing the Baldwin contract!"
"Mr. Manning, Sir."
"Will you put a quarter of a million into the Baldwin contract with me?"
"I'm not interested, Mr. Hillary, I'm going West tomorrow."
"We must be particularly nice to this young millionaire; I want to interest him in the Baldwin contract."
"I'm having a little dinner tonight. You must come and meet the prettiest Girl in the world!"
A Newspaper of Five Years ago.
The Pompton Bulletin
Marries Against Parents Wishes
Friends of Mary McCall, Only Daughter of old Judge McCall, were Surprised Yesterday to Learn of Her Elopement With Stephen Denby, a Young City man of Questionable Reputation who has been Spending his Vacation here.
It is Understood the Match was very Much Against the, Judge's Wishes.
The Result.
"Can't you give me some money for food?"
"You needn't think because you're a Judge's daughter that you're too good for me!"
"I'll give you two days to get that rent."
salary $30 a month. Answer in own handwriting. Address Box 49 World office.
Wanted—A capable seamstress to work by the day. Apply before 4 P. M. Side entrance No. 27, Harrington Drive.
Wanted—By a family of four, experienced cook. Prefer one who can furnish the proper references,
27 Harrington Drive.
"My dear Young Lady—your evident refinement hardly suggests this address."
"I haven't always lived in Cherry Street."
6:30 P. M.
"That pretty Martin Girl, I selected for Mr. Manning, is ill."
"Dinner is in half an hour; it's too late to get anyone else."
"That Girl upstairs!"
"One of my dinner guests has disappointed me. Will you fill the vacant place—it's very important!"
The Substitute.
"Mary dear, allow me to introduce Mr. Manning."
"Dinner is served."
Midnight.
"May I take you home?"
"Miss Martin is spending the night with us."
"Here are the day's wages."
"Tell me something about that Girl."
"I like your proposition, but I haven't got time, this trip, to go into it."
"Mr. Manning is just going, my Dear. His train leaves early in the morning."
"What a pity you can't remain with us over the week-end. I have just persuaded Mary to join our party."
"May I change my mind and stay over?"
"With Manning here, I can fix the Deal. Find the Girl and buy three days of her time."
Home.
"Sewing! If you ain't lyin'—come across."
"Where did you get that flower?"
The Bargain.
"It is imperative that you spend the week end with us."
"Here's a hundred dollars, my Dear. We may expect you on Friday?"
Friday.
"A Cop's trailin' me—but I gave him the slip!"
"I've got a Three Day job in a laundry in Newark."
The House of Enchantment.
"I hope Mr. Manning isn't getting serious over that Girl."
"Can't you see I'm falling in love with you?"
"The cook at 27 Harrington Drive says a swell dame is stoppin' there with sparklers as big as your head!"
The Last Night.
"You have played your part admirably. Will you accept this as a token of my appreciation?"
"I'll take up this scheme of yours, Old Man, so you'll give me some peace."
"You're going to be my wife!"
"You can't tell me you don't love me!"
"Did she accept you?"
In the Night.
"Some Laundry!"
"Who's the Guy?"
"Get into your rags and meet me outside."
"I just came to see my wife."
"I never saw that man before!"
"He is a thief—search him!"
"Phone for the Police!"
"All the time you were working the "inside" so he could rob us!"
"You must let him go! Do you want your Friend to know you have fooled him?"
"Make it look like an escape."
"Tell your rich Friend he won't know you after I get through with you!"
"Don't shoot—give him a chance!"
"Tell me one thing before you go—why won't you marry me?"
"Because that man is my husband!"
"Your swell Dame with the sparklers was my wife!"
"Don't croak de Guy! If he's stuck on her—make him pay."
Morning Comes.
"Will you take me in for a few days?"
"Write a letter to your rich friend that'll bring him down here in a hurry."
"We've got a scheme to make a little coin. Write that letter and you'll come in on it."
Mr. Manning
I am in terrible trouble. You are the only one who can help me. Will you come to 18 Cherry St at 10 oclock tonight.
Mary Denby.
Dont Come
"I regret, Mr. Hillary, that I haven't the time to take up your Contract."
The Message.
"Denby gets crazy drunk and beats the life out of her!"
"That Girl's been starving—that's why she came up here."
Mr. Manning
I am in terrible trouble. You are the only one who can help me. Will you come to 18 Cherry St at 10 oclock tonight.
Mary Denby.
Dont Come
10 P. M.
"It's time for Manning. Get ready."
"If I'm not down in five minutes—get the Police."
"They've got you trapped—go by the fire escape!"
"This'll look fine in print. 'Young Millionaire visits wife of day laborer at midnight."
"It'll cost you ten thousand dollars to get out of this."
A Famous Players-Lasky Production
The End
A Paramount Picture
Copyrighted 1915 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
Copyright law abroad tends to consider the following people authors of a film:
* The principal director
* The screenwriter, and/or other writers of dialogue
* The composer/lyricist (if the film is accompanied by sound)
* The cinematographer
* By extension, the authors of any works that may serve as the basis for a film's plot
The longest-living of these authors died in 1959, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 64 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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