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Married in Name Only (1917)

Married in Name Only poster
Directed by
Edmund Lawrence
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman marries a man for convenience rather than love. The arrangement leads to emotional complications for both of them.

silent-eradramatictenseslow-burnseriousrestrainedearnest

What happens

Married in Name Only is a 1917 American silent film written by Ivan Abramson and directed by Edmund Lawrence, starring Gretchen Hartman, Milton Sills, and Marie Shotwell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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