
Barbara Rand, the daughter of a poor but proud Southern widow, loses her sight after leaping through the window of a notorious roadhouse to escape an assailant. Her sister, Natalie, reluctantly abandons her fiancé, Ned Gardiner, and marries Oliver Landis, who can provide the money needed for Barbara's operation.

Bennet Musson, E. Lloyd Sheldon
United States

The year 1919 stood as a threshold for American cinema, a moment where the crude tropes of the early nickelodeon era began to calcify into the sophisticated melodramas that would define the silent epoch. Marriage for Convenience, directed by Sidney Olcott, serves as a quintessential artifact of this transition. It is...

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" The year 1919 stood as a threshold for American cinema, a moment where the crude tropes of the early nickelodeon era began to calcify into the sophisticated melodramas that would define the silent epoch. Marriage for Convenience, directed by Sidney Olcott, serves as a quintessential artifact of this transition. It is a film that weaponizes the concept of familial duty, transforming the domestic space into a labyrinth of moral compromise and hidden monstrosity. At its center is Catherine Calver..."


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