A Marriage of Convenience

Dec 21, 1918

0h 20m

★ 0.0

Overview

Billy Emerson and Mildred Girard are secretly engaged to be married after Billy graduates from West Point and becomes a lieutenant. A very serious setback to their tentative understanding occurs when Mr. Girard loses heavily in a stock transaction that places himself under obligations to his friend Morley, whose son Paul, is anxious to marry Mildred.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Vitagraph Company of America

A Marriage of Convenience Trailers

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Cast

Mildred Girard

Edith Storey

Mrs. Girard, Mildred's Mother

Rose Tapley

Billy Emerson, Mildred's Fiancé

James Morrison

Paul Morley, a Morphine Addict

James Young

John Morley, Paul's Father

Tefft Johnson

Lillian Walker

Stephen Girard, Mildred's Father

George Ober

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