Legend of Hollywood (1924)

Smith, former newspaper man, goes from studio to studio trying to sell his story. Finally his landlady refuses to furnish meals but allows him to remain a week longer in his room. He fills seven wine glasses and in one puts poison. He drinks a glass a day until the last one is drained. Then he learns the maid had upset the poison. He receives a check for his play and finds happiness with the maid, Mary Brown.