Marriage for Convenience

50min

Drama

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

Catherine Calvert

Natalie Rand
Ann May

Ann May

Barbara Rand
George Majeroni

George Majeroni

Oliver Landis
Edmund Burns

Edmund Burns

Ned Gardiner
Henry Sedley

Henry Sedley

Howard Pollard
Blanche Davenport

Blanche Davenport

Mrs. Raleigh Rand
Sadie Leonard

Sadie Leonard

Mrs. Daniel Chester
George Pauncefort

George Pauncefort

Dick Stanton
Edward Slow

Edward Slow

Negro Servant

Release date

3rd Feb 1919

Status

Released

Spoken languages

No Language