The Midnight Bride (1920)
While waiting on a New York park bench for the return of her friends, country girl Jeanne Sterling meets Forrest Chenoweth, a rich young wastrel who, while drunk, registered for a marriage license with fortune-hunting Helen Dorr. Enchanted with Jeanne's innocence, Forrest proposes to Jeanne, and they are married by an alderman friend of Forrest's with the license that Forrest had taken out with Helen. That night Forrest drinks too much, falls in his room and kills himself. The scandal appears in the papers, forcing Jeanne to confess the marriage to her sweetheart Robert Pitcairn. However, Helen, in an attempt to acquire the Chenoweth fortune, claims to be Forrest's widow, thus disgracing Jeanne.
Director: William Humphrey
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Gladys Leslie as Jeanne Sterling |
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James Morrison as Robert Pitcairn - Jeanne's sweetheart |
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Gladden James as Forrest Chenoweth |
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Roy Applegate as James Weir |
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Virginia Valli as Helen Dorr |
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Denton Vane as |
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Nellie Parker Spaulding as Aunt Marcia |
| Directing | William Humphrey | Director |
| Writing | Horace Hazeltine | Story |
| Writing | Sam Taylor | Scenario Writer |
