Respectable by Proxy
Rich Southerner John Stanley Hale meets flirtatious actress Elizabeth Roddard, she induces him to marry her, but after several days of quarreling, he flees to Russia. After John's vessel is sunk in mid-ocean and he is reported dead, Elizabeth convinces her destitute and ailing friend Betty Blair to pose as John's widow in order to inherit his fine home in Alabama.
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Cast
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Sylvia Breamer
Betty Blair
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William R. Dunn
Clinton Hale
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A Cure for Pokeritis
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Bessie Stinson
Rita Middleton
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Birthright
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Eulalie Jensen
Elizabeth Roddard
Known for
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Margaret Barry
Madame Hale
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The Moonshine Trail
The Blood Barrier
Morgan Thorpe
Clayton Walpole
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The Sign of the Cross
The House of the Tolling Bell
Robert Gordon
John Stanley Hale
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Tom Sawyer
J. Stuart Blackton Director · Florence Myott Story William S. Adams Cinematographer
United States release February 15, 1920 · Produced in United States
Production
J. Stuart Blackton Feature Pictures
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · February 15, 1920
Theatrical
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