
Married in Name Only
A solemn, melodramatic silent-era drama of thwarted love and inherited-fate anxiety, played with earnest intensity and a heavy, moralizing mood.
- Directed by
- Edmund Lawrence
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Gretchen Hartman, Milton Sills, Marie Shotwell
- Tagline
- A Most Novel and Intense Drama Based Upon Eugenic Principals.
- Overview
- 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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- Directed by
- Edmund Lawrence
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Gretchen Hartman, Milton Sills, Marie Shotwell





