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Sold for Marriage is a american film of genre Drama directed by Christy Cabanne released in USA on 15 april 1916 with Lillian Gish

Sold for Marriage (1916)

Sold for Marriage
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Released in USA 15 april 1916
Length 50minutes
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating62% 3.135373.135373.135373.135373.13537

Sold for Marriage is a 1916 American drama film directed by Christy Cabanne for Triangle Film Corporation. Its working title was Marja of the Steppes. The plot concerns a beautiful young Russian girl who is in love with a young but poor American boy but whose guardian wants her to marry a rich man that she does not love. An extant film, a copy preserved at the Library of Congress.



^ Progressive Silent Film List: Sold for Marriage at silentera.com

^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute,c.1978

Actors

Lillian Gish

(Marfa)Frank Bennett

(Jan)Walter Long

(Col. Gregioff)William Lowery

(George)Frank Brownlee

(Nicholas)Fred Burns

(A Policeman)
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