Cupid Forecloses
1919 silent film by David Smith
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Cupid Forecloses is a 1919 American silent comedy[4] film starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald. It was directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios. It was based on the popular novel Hurrying Fate and Geraldine by Florence Morse Kingsley. The film has been preserved at the British Film Institute and American Film Institute.[1][5]
Plot
Geraldine Farleigh (Love), a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright. She falls in love with the man she believes is a lawyer representing Cartwright (MacDonald), who turns out to be Cartwright himself.[5][6]
Cast
- Bessie Love as Geraldine Farleigh[3]
- Dorothea Wolbert as Mrs. Farleigh
- Wallace MacDonald as Bruce Cartwright
- Frank Hayes as Oliver Brown
- Jim Donnelly as Jim Connors
- Aggie Herring as Mrs. Connors
- Jake Abram as Rufe Tinker
- Anne Schaefer as Aunt Adelaide
- Gordon Griffith as Nat Farleigh
- Otto Lederer as The Postmaster
References
- ^ a b c "Cupid Forecloses". American Film Institute. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
- ^ Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 150. OCLC 734075937.
- ^ a b c Reid, Laurence (July 12, 1919). "Cupid Forecloses (Vitagraph)". Motion Picture News. p. 601.
- ^ a b "Amusements – Lenard's Big Show". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW. December 22, 1919. p. 3.
- ^ a b "Cupid Forecloses (1919)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 11, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
- ^ "Amusements". Otago Daily Times. No. 18032. September 4, 1920. p. 1.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cupid Forecloses.
- Cupid Forecloses at IMDb
- Cupid Forecloses at AllMovie
- Cupid Forecloses at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by David Smith
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- The Changing Woman (1918)
- Baree, Son of Kazan (1918)
- The Dawn of Understanding (1918)
- The Enchanted Barn (1919)
- The Wishing Ring Man (1919)
- A Yankee Princess (1919)
- Over the Garden Wall (1919)
- Cupid Forecloses (1919)
- A Fighting Colleen (1919)
- The Little Boss (1919)
- Pegeen (1920)
- The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920)
- Black Beauty (1921)
- Flower of the North (1921)
- A Guilty Conscience (1921)
- The Little Minister (1922)
- The Angel of Crooked Street (1922)
- My Wild Irish Rose (1922)
- The Ninety and Nine (1922)
- A Girl's Desire (1922)
- The Man from Brodney's (1923)
- Masters of Men (1923)
- Pioneer Trails (1923)
- The Midnight Alarm (1923)
- My Man (1924)
- Code of the Wilderness (1924)
- Captain Blood (1924)
- Baree, Son of Kazan (1925)
- Steele of the Royal Mounted (1925)
- Pampered Youth (1925)
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