A Wife by Proxy (1917)

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Original Title: A Wife by Proxy

Release Date: January 06, 1917

Runtime: 50 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

Overview

The film opens in Ireland, as a dying Patrick McNairne tells his daughter Jerry to go to New York and look up Norton Burbeck, a wealthy young man whose life Patrick had saved some time earlier (the surviving print, largely complete, lacks the second page insert of a letter explaining the full background). The affable Burbeck is due to inherit his uncle’s fortune provided he’s married by November; if not, the inheritance will go to his cousin Howard Curtis. An adventuress, Beatrice Gaden, and her husband Dick are in cahoots with Curtis: Beatrice pretends to be single in order to string Norton along up to the November date, at which time Curtis will come into the money and give a share to his unscrupulous partners.

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Cast

Mabel Taliaferro

Jerry McNairne

Sally Crute

Beatrice Gaden

Yale Benner

Howard Curtis

Ricca Allen

Scraggs (housekeeper)

Crew

June Mathis

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