Forbidden Fruit (1921)

Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve unemployed has no real prospects of earning money Marys employers are trying to strike an oil related business deal with a rich man by the name of Nelson Rogers The deal does not seem to be on the table as Mr Rogers is leaving town shortly and does not have the time to work out the details of such a deal In an order to entice him to stay Mrs Mallory wife of Mr Mallory who is proposing the business deal convinces Mary to be her guest at a dinner party with the intent of making Mr Rogers fall for her and thus stay long enough for Mr Mallory to make him agree to a business deal