
Duplex
2003


8 votes
A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
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Sidney FranklinWriters
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“Dr. Brown” (Conrad Nagel) arrives, eagerly expected, at the home of his belle “Phoebe” (Marion Davies) only to tell her that he is off to help the soldiers fighting the Napoleonic wars. She and her sister “Susan” (Helen Jerome Eddy) become school teachers and almost ten years pass before the doctor, now a captain, returns to be disappointed by his now rather more aged gal. She’s horrified by his reaction so sets about rejuvenating herself to win him back. Thing is, though, she doesn’t just re-invent “Phoebe”, she creates a younger version: her neice “Livvy”. It isn’t just him whose head is tu…
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