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Marriage for Convenience (1919)

Marriage for Convenience poster
Directed by
Sidney Olcott
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman enter a marriage for practical reasons. It is a silent drama from 1919.

silentold-fashionedstraightforwardneutralmatter-of-factmelodramatic

What happens

Marriage for Convenience is a 1919 silent film drama directed by Sidney Olcott and starring Catherine Calvert. Prints of the film survive in the BFI National Archive, London, the Library of Congress, and George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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