A couple, James and Alita Hazlitt, have endured a long, difficult marriage that has oscillated between affection and animosity, intermittently separating and reconciling. Their only child, the teenage Lita, is away at boarding school. Seeking to permanently reunite her beloved parents, she devises a deception. She informs them she is infatuated with a conceited and shallow Hollywood actor. Lita anticipates that her mother and father will join forces in a crusade to save her from a disastrous marriage to this phony “movie sheik.”
A young doctor enters the scene and he and Lita discover they are genuinely attracted to one another. When the young couple find that they quarrel frequently, the doctor explains to Lita that this is indicative of a couple in love. As such, Lita’s parents, too, still love one another. The climax involves a scandal when Lita is suspected of having an affair with the movie star. Guiltless, she takes the blame for her girl friend at the boarding school who had the affair and Lita is wrongly expelled. The Hazlitts become so distressed over Lita’s welfare they become forever reconciled, and their daughter is exonerated.
Doors & Bar open 11am. $15 for tickets and free for kids 13 and under.
Film duration 82 minutes.