Respectable by Proxy
1920 film
- Florence Myott
- Stanley Olmstead
- Sylvia Breamer
- Robert Gordon
- William R. Dunn
Production
company
company
J. Stuart Blackton Feature Pictures
Release date
- February 15, 1920 (1920-02-15)
English intertitles
Respectable by Proxy is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Sylvia Breamer, Robert Gordon and William R. Dunn.[1]
Plot
Rich Southerner John Stanley Hale meets flirtatious actress Elizabeth Roddard, she induces him to marry her, but after several days of quarreling, he flees to Russia. After John's vessel is sunk in mid-ocean and he is reported dead, Elizabeth convinces her destitute and ailing friend Betty Blair to pose as John's widow in order to inherit his fine home in Alabama. Betty complies and becomes indispensable to Mrs. Hale, who is despondent over her son's death and has become the victim of scheming relatives. One day, John returns, and discovering that Betty has protected his mother from his greedy relations, falls in love with her. Elizabeth then reveals that her marriage was never legal and that he is free to marry his "proxy wife."[2]
Cast
- Sylvia Breamer as Betty Blair
- Robert Gordon as John Stanley Hale
- William R. Dunn as Clinton Hale
- Bessie Stinson as Rita Middleton
- Eulalie Jensen as Elizabeth Roddard
- Margaret Barry as Madame Hale
- Morgan Thorpe as Clayton Walpole
References
Bibliography
- Darby, William. Masters of Lens and Light: A Checklist of Major Cinematographers and Their Feature Films. Scarecrow Press, 1991.
External links
- Respectable by Proxy at IMDb
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Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton
- The Life of Moses (1909)
- The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)
- Whom the Gods Destroy (1916)
- The Judgment House (1917)
- Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917)
- Life's Greatest Problem (1918)
- The World for Sale (1918)
- The Common Cause (1919)
- My Husband's Other Wife (1920)
- Passers By (1920)
- The House of the Tolling Bell (1920)
- Respectable by Proxy (1920)
- Man and His Woman (1920)
- The Blood Barrier (1920)
- The Forbidden Valley (1920)
- The Glorious Adventure (1922)
- A Gipsy Cavalier (1922)
- The Virgin Queen (1923)
- On the Banks of the Wabash (1923)
- Between Friends (1924)
- Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924)
- The Beloved Brute (1924)
- The Clean Heart (1924)
- Behold This Woman (1924)
- The Happy Warrior (1925)
- The Redeeming Sin (1925)
- Tides of Passion (1925)
- Bride of the Storm (1926)
- Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926)
- The Gilded Highway (1926)
- The Passionate Quest (1926)
- The American (1927)
- The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)
- The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)
- The Automobile Thieves (1906)
- The Haunted Hotel (1907)
- A Curious Dream (1907)
- Macbeth (1908)
- Romeo and Juliet (1908)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1908)
- Oliver Twist (1909)
- Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
- Les Misérables (1909)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)
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