The Midnight Bride

The Midnight Bride

Miss Leslie proves to be the prettiest little country girl who ever bobbed into the world's greatest city and picked out a millionaire husband and married him at midnight and lost him in an hour.

NR 1920 · 50 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama

While waiting on a New York park bench for the return of her friends, country girl Jeanne Sterling meets Forrest Chenoweth, a rich young wastrel who, while drunk, registered for a marriage license with fortune-hunting Helen Dorr. Enchanted with Jeanne's innocence, Forrest proposes to Jeanne, and they are married by an alderman friend of Forrest's with the license that Forrest had taken out with Helen. That night Forrest drinks too much, falls in his room and kills himself. The scandal appears in the papers, forcing Jeanne to confess the marriage to her sweetheart Robert Pitcairn. However, Helen, in an attempt to acquire the Chenoweth fortune, claims to be Forrest's widow, thus disgracing Jeanne.

Directed by William Humphrey · Written by Horace Hazeltine

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Gladys Leslie Jeanne Sterling
James Morrison Robert Pitcairn - Jeanne's sweetheart
Gladden James Forrest Chenoweth
Roy Applegate James Weir
Virginia Valli Helen Dorr
Denton Vane
Nellie Parker Spaulding Aunt Marcia

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