Married in Name Only (1917)

Married in Name Only

1917

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Edmund Lawrence

Cast

Dora Mills Adams as Mrs. Francis

Gretchen Hartman as Madeline Francis

Marie Shotwell as Mrs. Worthing

Milton Sills as Robert Worthing

William Desmond

Crew

Edmund Lawrence (Scenario Writer)

Ivan Abramson (Scenario Writer)