{{short description|1925 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Daughters Who Pay | image = Daughters Who Pay (1925) - 1.jpg | caption = Advertisement | director = George Terwilliger | producer = | writer = William B. Laub | starring = Marguerite De La Motte<br>John Bowers<br>J. Barney Sherry<br>Bela Lugosi | cinematography = Edward Paul<br>Murphy Darling<br>Charles J. Davis | editing = | distributor = Banner Productions | released = {{film date|1925|5|10}} | runtime = 6 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''Daughters Who Pay''''' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by George Terwilliger, starring Marguerite De La Motte and John Bowers, and featuring Bela Lugosi as Serge Romonsky.<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DaughtersWhoPay1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Daughters Who Pay''] at silentera.com</ref>
==Plot== Margaret Smith attempts to save her brother by visiting Henry Foster, from whom her brother stole, but Foster refuses leniency. Sonia Borisoff, a Broadway dancer, visits Foster with the offer that she will break her engagement with Dick Foster, the son of the wealthy man, if Margaret's brother is given a pardon. He accepts. In the presence of a crowd of Russian Reds, Sonia makes love to their leader when Dick appears. He is indignant, but Sonia then insults the Communist leader after Dick leaves. The Reds lure her to a lonely house where they plan to kill her, but Dick intervenes. Some of the Reds again corner her in her apartment, but secret service men arrest them. Margaret and Sonia are then revealed to be the same young woman and to be an agent of the secret service. She and Dick then wed.<ref>{{Citation |title=New Pictures: ''Daughters Who Pay'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=21 |issue=12 |pages=59 |date=13 June 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald21unse/page/1564/mode/1up |access-date=3 April 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Marguerite De La Motte as Sonia Borisoff / Margaret Smith * John Bowers as Dick Foster * J. Barney Sherry as Henry Foster * Bela Lugosi as Serge Romonsky * Marie Schaefer as Aunt Mary (credited as Marie Shaffer) * Joseph Striker as Larry Smith }}
==Preservation== A print of ''Daughters Who Pay'' exists at George Eastman House.<ref name="LOC">{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1099/default.html |title=Daughters Who Pay |access-date=January 9, 2014 |work=Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database}}</ref>
==See also== * Béla Lugosi filmography
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|Daughters Who Pay}} *{{IMDb title|id=0015739|title=Daughters Who Pay}} *{{Internet Archive film|daughters-who-pay-1925|Daughters Who Pay}}
{{George Terwilliger}}
Category:1925 films Category:1925 drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent drama films Category:American silent feature films Category:Films directed by George Terwilliger Category:Surviving American silent films Category:1925 American films Category:1925 English-language films Category:English-language drama films