The Marriage Market (1923 film)

The Marriage Market
The Marriage Market
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Directed by	Edward LeSaint
Written by	Evelyn Campbell
Produced by	Harry Cohn
Starring	Pauline Garon ; Jack Mulhall ; Alice Lake
Production; company	CBC Film Sales Corporation
Distributed by	CBC Film Sales Corporation
Release date	October 25, 1923;
Running time	58 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Last updated December 23, 2024

The Marriage Market is a 1923 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Pauline Garon, Jack Mulhall, and Alice Lake. The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation, which would later become Columbia Pictures.^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[2] mischievous pranks lead to the expulsion of Theodora Bland from a young woman's fashionable academy. She aids Dora Smith, who is escaping from a reform school, and later impersonates her in the home of novelist Roland Carruthers. The latter hides her from the Sheriff. Theodora's relatives endeavor to force her into an unwelcome marriage. After various adventures, she defeats their schemes and weds Roland.

Cast

Pauline Garon as Theodora Bland
Jack Mulhall as Roland Carruthers
Marc B. Robbins as John Piggott
Vera Lewis as Aunt Agnes Piggott
Alice Lake as Lillian Piggott
Willard Louis as Seibert Peckham
Kate Lester as Harriet T. Whitcomb
Mayme Kelso as Miss Blodgett
Shannon Day as Dora Smith, a Reform School Girl
Jean De Briac as Count Dimitri

Production

A historical sequence in the film reproduces the scene depicted in the 1875 painting The Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long, which was also done in the Babylonian story of Intolerance (1916).

Preservation and status

Complete copies are held at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the National Archives of Canada.^[3]

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References

↑ Basinger p. 3
↑ Pardy, George T. (January 26, 1924). "Box Office Reviews: The Marriage Market". Exhibitors Trade Review. 15 (10). New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 26. Retrieved July 25, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
↑ "The Marriage Market [motion picture]". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved October 10, 2023.

Bibliography

Jeanine Basinger (2013). I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-26916-4

External links

The Marriage Market at IMDb

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[1] Basinger p. 3

[2] Pardy, George T. (January 26, 1924). "Box Office Reviews: The Marriage Market". Exhibitors Trade Review. 15 (10). New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 26. Retrieved July 25, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

[3] "The Marriage Market [motion picture]". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved October 10, 2023.

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