The Marriage Price
| The Marriage Price | |
|---|---|
_-_1.jpg) Still with Standing and Ferguson | |
| Directed by | Emile Chautard |
| Written by | Griswold Wheeler (story: For Sale) Eve Unsell (scenario) |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
| Starring | Elsie Ferguson |
| Cinematography | Jacques Bizeul (fr) |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures / Artcraft |
Release date |
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Running time | 5 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Marriage Price is a 1919 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures and Artcraft. Emile Chautard directed and Elsie Ferguson stars. This film is lost.[1][2][3]
Plot
[edit]As described in a film magazine,[4] Helen Tremaine (Ferguson) is an extravagant daughter of a wealthy New York man, but becomes impoverished by his death and disillusioned when her friends leave her, save Frederick Lawton (Standing), a man of power and wealth. She does not love Lawton and prefers Kenneth Gordon (Atwill), but he says he is too poor to marry her. She attempts to support herself, but even fails at a job as a film actress. Nearly starving, she marries Lawton as a last resort. He tests her by making her financially independent through a pretend heritage of hers that he claims to have discovered, but she remains a girl of her word. All is well until her former love shows up to win her with a scheme that will enrich him while ruining her husband. The deal goes through, but it is a trap set up by her husband to show her the type of man her former love was. She now sees the nobility in her husband with happy results.
Cast
[edit]- Elsie Ferguson as Helen Tremaine
- Wyndham Standing as Frederick Lawton
- Lionel Atwill as Kenneth Gordon
- Robert Schable as Archie Van Orden
- Maud Hosford as Amelia Lawton
- Marie Temper as Evie Hitchens
- Clariette Anthony as The Other Woman
- Zelda Crosby as Undetermined Role
- Carrie Clark Ward as 'uncredited'
References
[edit]- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Marriage Price(Wayback)
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Marriage Price
- ^ Harrison, Louis Reeves (March 29, 1919). "Reviews and Advertising Aids: The Marriage Price". Moving Picture World. 39 (13). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Company: 1838. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
External links
[edit]
- The Marriage Price at IMDb
- The Marriage Price synopsis; allmovie.com
- Still from production with Elsie Ferguson and unidentified actress(?Carrie Clark Ward)
- Lantern slide
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- 1919 films
- 1919 lost films
- 1919 romantic drama films
- 1910s American films
- 1910s English-language films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent feature films
- English-language romantic drama films
- Famous Players-Lasky films
- Films directed by Emile Chautard
- Lost American romantic drama films
- Silent American romantic drama films
- Silent romantic drama film stubs