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The Marriage of Kitty
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Wikipedia article
'The Marriage of Kitty' is a lost[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7399/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Marriage of Kitty'] 1915 American silent comedy film directed by George Melford.
It was written by Francis de Croisset, Fred de Gresac, Cosmo Gordon Lennox and Hector Turnbull. The origin of the work was de Croisset, who wrote the French play 'La Passerelle' in 1902, and was soon adapted to English by Lennox as 'The Marriage of Kitty'.[https://books.google.com/books?id=EJgWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA137&lpg=#v=onepage&q&f=false The Duke of Yorks' Theatre: "The Marriage of Kitty"], 'Dramatic Criticism, Vol. IV 1902-03', pp. 137-40 (1904)
The film stars Fannie Ward, Richard Morris, Jack Dean, Cleo Ridgely, and Tom Forman. The film was released on August 16, 1915, by Paramount Pictures.
Plot
The film depicts a young woman (Fannie Ward) who agrees to a sham wedding with Lord Riginald Belsize (Jack Dean) because his inheritance prohibits him from marrying his girlfriend who is an actress. Belsize is convinced if he marries someone else and hires that woman to be his "wife" he can hide his relationship with his girlfriend. Eventually the young woman and the Lord fall in love even though that wasn't the original intention of either of them and she reveals that his girlfriend is a dangerous woman.
Cast
*Fannie Ward as Katherine "Kitty" Silverton
*Richard Morris as John Travers
*Jack Dean as Lord Reginald Belsize
*Cleo Ridgely as Helen de Semiano
*Tom Forman as Jack Churchill
*Mrs. Lewis McCord as Annie
*Lucien Littlefield (Undetermined Role)
*Theodore Roberts (Undetermined Role)
See also
*'Afraid to Love' (1927)
References
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