A Wife by Proxy
- User Rating
- 8
- Running Time
- 50
- Certification
- nr
- Original Title
- A Wife by Proxy
- Release Date
- 1917-01-06 00:00:00
- Budget
- Revenue
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.
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Norton Burbeck
Bob Walker
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Beatrice Gaden
Sally Crute
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Frederick Gaden
Fred Jones
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Howard Curtis
Yale Benner
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Scraggs (housekeeper)
Ricca Allen
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Flynn (the butler)
Edward Mack
