Marriage for Convenience

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.

Marriage for Convenience — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 3, 1919
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Sidney Olcott

Marriage for Convenience — Cast

Catherine Calvert Natalie Rand Ann May Barbara Rand George Majeroni Oliver Landis Edmund Burns Ned Gardiner Cesare Gravina Lazzare

H

Henry Sedley Howard Pollard

B

Blanche Davenport Mrs. Raleigh Rand

S

Sadie Leonard Mrs. Daniel Chester