Up the Ladder

Up the Ladder

1925•1h 1m•4.2/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.2/10(5)

A woman secretly sells her ancestral home in order to fund her sweetheart's new invention, a videophone, and then marries him when his fortune is made, only to be betrayed by his affair with her best friend.

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Production

Universal Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Virginia Valli

Virginia Valli

Jane Cornwall

Forrest Stanley

Forrest Stanley

James Van Clinton

Margaret Livingston

Margaret Livingston

Helene Newhall

Holmes Herbert

Holmes Herbert

Robert Newhall

Lydia Yeamans Titus

Lydia Yeamans Titus

Hannah, Jane's Old Nurse

Priscilla Moran

Priscilla Moran

Peggy

William V. Mong

William V. Mong

Richards

George Fawcett

George Fawcett

Judge Seymour

Olive Ann Alcorn

Olive Ann Alcorn

Dancer

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