The Gilded Dream is a 1920 American drama film directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and written by Doris Schroeder.

The film stars Carmel Myers, Tom Chatterton, Elsa Lorimer, Zola Claire, May McCulley, and Boyd Irwin.

[1][2][3] As described in a film magazine,[4] recently orphaned Leona (Myers) works hard at a millinery shop in a small town but dreams of a golden future.

She goes to New York City where she is taken under the wing of her godmother Geraldine de Forest (Lorimer), a friend of her mother.

She breaks her engagement with Frazer and Geraldine, concerned by the scandal it will create, orders her from the house and declines to have anything more to do with her.