Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
Madeleine Carroll
Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
Franchot Tone
Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
Reginald Denny
Erik von Gerhardt
Sig Ruman
Baron von Gerhardt (as Siegfried Rumann)
Louise Dresser
Baroness von Gerhardt
Raul Roulien
Carlos Girard (1825) / Henri Girard (1914)
Stepin Fetchit
Dixie
Lumsden Hare
Gabriel Warburton (1825) / Sir John Warburton (1914)
