The High Cost of Living

  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 14 min
  • Premiere: 1912. June 4.

Forbidden from marrying the man she loves by her wealthy businessman father because he is too poor Mildred Lord determines to find a solution. Attempting to live within the means her fiancée could afford, she finds the cost of food exorbitantly high and begins a campaign to force the prices down including taking on her father’s own company.

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Robert Brower

M. G. Lord

George Lessey

Tracy-Mildred's sweetheart

Miriam Nesbitt

Mildred Lord