The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds

Overview

During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.

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Cast

June Elvidge

Mrs. Maria Reynolds

Carlyle Blackwell

Alexander Hamilton

Arthur Ashley

Aaron Burr

Carl Gerard

James Reynolds

Evelyn Greeley

Margaret Moncrieffe

Lionel Belmore

Gen. Israel Putnam

George MacQuarrie

George Washington

Rose Tapley

Martha Washington

Al Hart

Thomas Jefferson

Alec B. Francis

Gen. Philip Schuyler