Married in Name Only

Married in Name Only

A Most Novel and Intense Drama Based Upon Eugenic Principals.

1917 en 60 minutes

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Plot

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.

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Cast

Gretchen Hartman

Gretchen Hartman

Madeline Francis

Milton Sills

Milton Sills

Robert Worthing

Marie Shotwell

Marie Shotwell

Mrs. Worthing

Dora Mills Adams

Dora Mills Adams

Mrs. Francis

William Desmond

William Desmond

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