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Genre
  
Drama

Production
  
Vitagraph Studios

Director
  
David Smith

Story by
  
Florence Morse Kingsley

Duration
  


Release date
  
July 12, 1919 (1919-07-12)

Based on
  
Hurrying Fate and Geraldine  by Florence Morse Kingsley

Writer
  
Florence Morse Kingsley (novel), Edward J. Montagne, Stanley Olmstead

Screenplay
  
Edward J. Montagne, Stanley Olmstead

Cast
  
Bessie Love
(Geraldine Farleigh),
Gordon Griffith
(Nat Farleigh),
Wallace MacDonald
(Bruce Cartwright),
Anne Schaefer
(Aunt Adelaide),
Dorothea Wolbert
(Mrs Farleigh)

Similar movies
  
A Yankee Princess (1919), Captain Blood (1924), White Shadows in the South Seas (1928), Civilization (1916), The Bad Man (1941)

Cupid Forecloses is a 1919 silent comedy film starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald, directed by David Smith. It was based on the popular novel Hurrying Fate and Geraldine by Florence Morse Kingsley. The film has been preserved at the British Film Institute and American Film Institute.

Contents

Plot

Geraldine Farleigh (Love), a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright. She falls in love with the man she believes is a lawyer representing Cartwright (MacDonald), who turns out to be Cartwright himself.

Cast

  • Bessie Love as Geraldine Farleigh
  • Dorothea Wolbert as Mrs. Farleigh
  • Wallace MacDonald as Bruce Cartwright
  • Frank Hayes as Oliver Brown
  • Jim Donnelly as Jim Connors
  • Aggie Herring as Mrs. Connors
  • Jake Abram as Rufe Tinker
  • Anne Schaefer as Aunt Adelaide
  • Gordon Griffith as Nat Farleigh
  • Otto Lederer as The Postmaster

    • References

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