Marriage for Convenience (1919)

Marriage for Convenience

1919

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Sidney Olcott

Cast

Ann May as Barbara Rand

Blanche Davenport as Mrs. Raleigh Rand

Catherine Calvert as Natalie Rand

Cesare Gravina as Lazzare

Edmund Burns as Ned Gardiner

Edward Slow as Negro Servant

George Majeroni as Oliver Landis

George Pauncefort as Dick Stanton