A Wife by Proxy (1917)
1917 · NR · 0h 50m · Drama
Genres: Drama
The film opens in Ireland, as a dying Patrick McNairne tells his daughter Jerry to go to New York and look up Norton Burbeck, a wealthy young man whose life Patrick had saved some time earlier (the surviving print, largely complete, lacks the second page insert of a letter explaining the full…
Director: John H. Collins
Writers: Charles Logue, John B. Clymer
Cinematography: Arthur A. Ross
Cast
Mabel Taliaferro as Jerry McNairneBob Walker as Norton BurbeckSally Crute as Beatrice GadenFred Jones as Frederick GadenYale Benner as Howard CurtisGeorge D. Melville as Timothy McNairnRicca Allen as Scraggs (housekeeper)Jerome N. Wilson as Guyler (Burbeck's lawyer)Edward Mack as Flynn (the butler)More like this
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