Married Love (film)

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Married Love
Directed by Alexander Butler
Written by Marie Stopes
Walter Summers
Produced by G.B. Samuelson
Starring Lillian Hall-Davis
Rex Davis
Sydney Fairbrother
Sam Livesey
Cinematography Sydney Blythe
Production
company
Distributed byNapoleon Films
Release date
  • May 1923 (1923-05)
Running time
6,200 feet [1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Married Love is a 1923 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Rex Davis and Sydney Fairbrother. It was also known by the alternative titles Married Life and Maisie's Marriage. The film was loosely based on the 1918 non-fiction book Married Love by Marie Stopes. [2]

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Cast

Production

The film was written by Marie Stopes with Walter Summers.

Release

Originally entitled Married Love, after her book, it was subsequently subject to a censorship campaign by the Home Office and British Board of Film Censors and changed first to Maisie’s Marriage then released as Married Life in May 1923. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

"that there were many scenes and sub-titles which rendered the film unsuitable for exhibition before ordinary audiences, while the title, taken in conjunction with the name of the book and the authoress referred to, suggested propaganda on a subject unsuitable for discussion in a cinema theatre" [7] - Examiners of the Board of Film Censors

"The Publishers of the film then approached the Board of Film Censors, offering to eliminate all incidents from the film dealing with the question of birth control and to make no mention in the posters or other printed matter that the film was founded on Dr Marie Stopes' book Married Love." [7] - S. W. Harris, Home Office

References

  1. ↑ Low, Rachael (1971). 1918-1929. The History of the British Film. London: George Allen & Unwin. p. 408. ISBN   9780047910210 – via Internet Archive.
  2. 1 2 Low, Rachael (1971). 1918-1929. The History of the British Film. London: George Allen & Unwin. p. 62. ISBN   9780047910210 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ "Film poster for Maisie's Marriage, 1923". Getty Images. Page Hall Cinema, Pitsmoor, Sheffield. 30 July 1923. Archived from the original on 5 December 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025. Film poster for Maisie's Marriage, 1923. Based (very loosely!) on Marie Stopes' best selling book "Married Love" and starring leading British silent star Lillian Hall-Davis, Maisie's Marriage was subject to an aggressive censorship campaign by the Home Office and British Board of Film Censors image
  4. ↑ "Roxy Cinema in Sheffield, GB". cinematreasures.org - Cinema Treasures. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  5. ↑ "the-roxy-page-hall". sheffieldhistory.co.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "Urban explorer pics show inside junk-filled former cinema used in Full Monty filming". The Star - yorkshirepost.co.uk. 9 July 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  7. 1 2 "Censorship of 'Married Love' film". The National Archives (United Kingdom) . Retrieved 5 December 2025. image
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