Sally Williams (Betty Bronson) marries Donald Moore (Richard Walling) and have trials and tribulations and input from others but they demonstrate that the most successful marriages are usually based on trust and respect, rather than on sex alone. Released in the UK under the title of "The Jazz Bride".
If you’re looking for a fun, breezy silent film to put on while you fold laundry, this isn’t it. But if you’re interested in that specific brand of 1920s anxiety where everyone was terrified that 'the youth' were going to destroy the concept of the family unit, Companionate Marriage is a strange, sometimes frustrating ...
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"If you’re looking for a fun, breezy silent film to put on while you fold laundry, this isn’t it. But if you’re interested in that specific brand of 1920s anxiety where everyone was terrified that 'the youth' were going to destroy the concept of the family unit, Companionate Marriage is a strange, sometimes frustrating little time capsule. It’s worth a watch if you’re a Betty Bronson completist or if you want to see what a social lecture looked like before the Hays Code really tightened its grip...."
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