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Married in Name Only

10/01/1917

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1hr 0min

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Drama

A Most Novel and Intense Drama Based Upon Eugenic Principals.

STORY

Robert Worthing marries his sweetheart, Madeline Francis, but the wedding is ruined by his mother, who announces that because she and her parents are insane, he possesses tainted genes. Fearing that he will pass the disease on to his children, the bridegroom avoids his new wife and locks the door between their rooms. Deeply in love with Madeline, whom he is forced to love only as a sister, Robert considers suicide, but all ends well when the young man learns that he was adopted.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Gretchen Hartman
  • Milton Sills
  • Marie Shotwell
  • Dora Mills Adams
  • William Desmond

    Director

  • Edmund Lawrence

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Ivan Film Productions

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • No Language

Cast

Gretchen Hartman

Madeline Francis

Milton Sills

Robert Worthing

Marie Shotwell

Mrs. Worthing

Dora Mills Adams

Mrs. Francis

William Desmond