The Golden Bed

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The Golden Bed

1925

1h 30m

4.0(4 votes)

Drama

Overview

Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier. Next Flora weds her sister Margaret's love Admah. She bleeds him dry, until he goes to prison.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Lillian Rich

Flora Lee Peake

Henry B. Walthall

Col. Peake

Vera Reynolds

Margaret Peake

Theodore Kosloff

Marquis de San Pilar

Rod La Rocque

Admah Holtz

Warner Baxter

Bunny O'Neill

Robert Cain

Savarac

Robert Edeson

Amos Thompson

Julia Faye

Nell Thompson

Madame Sul-Te-Wan

Boarding House Maid (Uncredited)

Creative team

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Written by: Jeanie Macpherson

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