The Ladder of Lies

{{short description|1920 film by Tom Forman}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Ladder of Lies | image = The Ladder of Lies (1920) - 1.jpg | alt = | caption = Newspaper advertisement | director = Tom Forman | producer = Jesse L. Lasky | screenplay = Edith Kennedy | story = Harold Vickers | starring = Ethel Clayton Clyde Fillmore Jean Acker Irving Cummings Charles Meredith Ruth Ashby | music = | cinematography = William Marshall | editing = | studio = Artcraft Pictures Corporation Famous Players–Lasky Corporation | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1920|7|11}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }}

'''''The Ladder of Lies''''' is a lost<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6723/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Ladder of Lies'']</ref> 1920 American silent drama film directed by Tom Forman and written by Edith Kennedy from a story by Harold Vickers.<ref name="tu070420">{{cite news |title="Ladder of Lies" - Rialto |work=Times Union |date=July 4, 1920 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=10 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> The film stars Ethel Clayton, Clyde Fillmore, Jean Acker, Irving Cummings, Charles Meredith, and Ruth Ashby. The film was released on July 11, 1920, by Paramount Pictures.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/98405/Ladder-of-Lies/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122071959/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/98405/Ladder-of-Lies/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 22, 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|author=Janiss Garza|date=2015|title=Ladder-of-Lies - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com|accessdate=January 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=17626|title=The Ladder of Lies|work=afi.com|accessdate=January 22, 2015}}</ref>

==Plot== Edith Parrish is a magazine illustrator whose publisher friend, Peter Gordon, has married an "unworthy wife", Dora Leroy. To keep her friend from being shattered by his wife's infidelity with Ralph Brent, Edith begins a series of lies to cover up the affair. However, this leads to suspicion that she is having a romance with Brent, which causes her true love, John Blaine, to doubt her. Brent, who respects Edith, comes clean to Blaine about the situation, and he and Edith are reconciled. Sources:<ref name="tu070420" /><ref name="ev072120">{{cite news |title=Rosemary Theatre |work=Evening Vanguard |date=July 21, 1920 |location=Venice, California |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

==Cast== *Ethel Clayton as Edith Parrish *Clyde Fillmore as Peter Gordon *Jean Acker as Dora Leroy *Irving Cummings as Ralph Brent *Charles Meredith as John Blaine *Ruth Ashby as Maid

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== External links == * {{IMDb title|0011380|The Ladder of Lies}}

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