Film

Married in Name Only

1917 · 1h · Drama

A Most Novel and Intense Drama Based Upon Eugenic Principals.

Robert Worthing marries his sweetheart, Madeline Francis, but the wedding is ruined by his mother, who announces that because she and her parents are insane, he possesses tainted genes. Fearing that he will pass the disease on to his children, the bridegroom avoids his new wife and locks the door between their rooms. Deeply in love with Madeline, whom he is forced to love only as a sister, Robert considers suicide, but all ends well when the young man learns that he was adopted.

Gretchen Hartman

Madeline Francis

Milton Sills

Robert Worthing

Marie Shotwell

Mrs. Worthing

Dora Mills Adams

Mrs. Francis

William Desmond

• Edmund LawrenceDirector

Release date

October 1, 1917

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h

Genres

Drama

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