The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds
movie
Released January 21, 1918
Overview
During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.
Cast
June Elvidge
as
Mrs. Maria Reynolds
Carlyle Blackwell
as
Alexander Hamilton
Arthur Ashley
as
Aaron Burr
Carl Gerard
as
James Reynolds
Evelyn Greeley
as
Margaret Moncrieffe
Lionel Belmore
as
Gen. Israel Putnam
George MacQuarrie
as
George Washington
Rose Tapley
as
Martha Washington
Al Hart
as
Thomas Jefferson
Alec B. Francis
as
Gen. Philip Schuyler
Jack Drumier
as
John Adams
Marguerite Gale
as
Mrs. William Bingham