Marriage for Convenience

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.

1919 · 50 min · ★ 9.0 · 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.

Directed by Sidney Olcott · Written by E. Lloyd Sheldon

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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

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