| The Ladder of Lies | |
| 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 |
| Cinematography: | William Marshall |
| Studio: | Artcraft Pictures Corporation Famous Players–Lasky Corporation |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Runtime: | 50 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Ladder of Lies is a lost[1] 1920 American silent drama film directed by Tom Forman and written by Edith Kennedy from a story by Harold Vickers.[2] 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.[3] [4]
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 coverup 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 Edith and him are reconciled.Sources: [5]