Marriage for Convenience (1919)
50m
Running Time
February 3, 1919Release Date

Marriage for Convenience (1919)
50m
Running Time
February 3, 1919Release Date
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.
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Cast & Crew.

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

Sidney Olcott
Director

Bennet Musson
Scenario Writer

E. Lloyd Sheldon
Story

Barry Williamson
Camera Operator

Frank A. Keeney
Presenter

S.M. Unander
Technical Supervisor
Details.
This Movie Is About.
library of congress
bfi
preserved george eastman house
Wiki.
Marriage For Convenience is a 1919 silent film drama directed by Sidney Olcott and starring Catherine Calvert.
Prints survive of this feature the BFI National Archive, London, the Library of Congress and George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.