Miss Lulu Bett is a 1922 film which tells the story of an unmarried woman, treated as little better than a charwoman in the house of her married sister, who becomes the center of scandal when she is jokingly "married" to an already-married man. It stars Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts, Helen Ferguson, Mabel Van Buren and Ethel Wales.
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Free eBook of Miss Lulu Bett (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10429) at Project Gutenberg
LuluBett and her mother live with her sister, Ina, and brother-in-law, Dwight, and their two daughters - Diana, an older teenager, and a younger daughter, Monona, the typical pesky adolescent.
In "MissLuluBett," he's domineering, demands that the whole family serve and cater to him, is cruel with his words, has alienated his children, and treats both his mother-in-law and sister-in-law with disdain.
His character in "MissLuluBett" is a rather shallow role that essentially fills a need in the story - that of the handsome suitor with whom she is in love and who provides an escape from her miserable life - but, other than that, he has no impact on the storyline.
Lulu considers this a reasonable story, but her brother-in-law, Dwight, insists that it would be a humiliation to the family to reveal such a thing, and insists that she tell everyone instead that Ninian grew bored with her and left her.
Lulu is unable to see why this should be a less humiliating story, and begins to complain about her circumstances for the first time.
Lulu eventually has to prevent Di from eloping, and is finally inspired to move out of her sister's home and live on her own.
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