
Film
Marriage for Convenience
1919 · 50m · Drama
A dramatic portrayal of the astounding story of a woman who unknowingly married the man who had wronged her. A marriage for convenience not for love.
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Overview
Barbara Rand is blinded when she leaps through a window to escape an assailant. Her sister, Natalie, reluctantly abandons her fiancé, Ned Gardiner, and marries Oliver Landis, who can provide the money needed for Barbara's operation. Unaware that Oliver was Barbara's attacker, Natalie blames his business partner, Howard Pollard, who was with Barbara on the night she was injured. Natalie holds Howard at gunpoint, but when her husband arrives, he promises to deal with the villain making sure Howard falls to his death. Upon Barbara’s release from the hospital, Oliver tries to blind her once. Natalie threatens him with a pistol, but Oliver wrests it away from her. He then realizes that he can no longer hide his guilt from Natalie or the police and shoots himself. Barbara has been avenged, and Natalie is free to marry Ned.
Cast

Catherine Calvert
Natalie Rand

Ann May
Barbara Rand

George Majeroni
Oliver Landis

Edmund Burns
Ned Gardiner

Cesare Gravina
Lazzare
Henry Sedley
Howard Pollard
Blanche Davenport
Mrs. Raleigh Rand
Sadie Leonard
Mrs. Daniel Chester
George Pauncefort
Dick Stanton
Edward Slow
Negro Servant
Crew
- Sidney OlcottDirector
- E. Lloyd SheldonStory
Details
- Release date
- February 3, 1919
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
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