A Wife by Proxy

Name: A Wife by Proxy
Genre: Drama
Released: 1917-01-06
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Mabel Taliaferro, Bob Walker, Sally Crute, Fred Jones, Yale Benner

8.0/10 1917 50 min 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 background). The affable Burbeck is due to inherit his uncle’s fortune provided he’s married by November; if not, the inheritance will go to his cousin Howard Curtis. An adventuress, Beatrice Gaden, and her husband Dick are in cahoots with Curtis: Beatrice pretends to be single in order to string Norton along up to the November date, at which time Curtis will come into the money and give a share to his unscrupulous partners.