(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- Country: USA
- Genres: Drama, Short
- Release: 1909-11-29
- Director: D.W. Griffith
- Writers: Stanner E.V. Taylor
- Language: None | English
- Stars: Mary Pickford , Arthur V. Johnson , Anthony O’Sullivan , George Nichols , Kate Bruce , Frank Evans , Ruth Hart , Guy Hedlund , Jeanie Macpherson , Owen Moore
- Runtime: 7 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: The Trick That Failed , The Trick That Failed (United States of America)
- Plot: Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she sells her paintings. Billy recruits his friends to buy her paintings. At first she is excited by the sudden success, but when she learns the truth, Nellie leaves her sweetheart to accept the proposal of a rival painter.
- IMDB:tt0001074
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