Please Get Married


1919

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
Oct 25, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Screen Classics, Inc.
Distribution Company
Metro Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Please Get Married by James Cullen, Lewis Allen Browne (New York, 10 Feb 1919).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5-7 reels

Synopsis

Muriel Ashley is engaged to Ferdie Walton. Ferdie's father opposes the marriage while Muriel's parents favor it. The couple are married by a strange parson who wanders into the Ashley home. Then, after they leave for the honeymoon, Ferdie's father discovers the clergyman is a crook. He notifies the hotel and the young couple are ordered out. They return to the bridal suite by way of a window, but the hotel catches fire and they escape. They go to the Ashley home where they learn they are actually not married. The "clergyman" who married them breaks into the house and is captured. Rev. Dr. Jenkins identifies him, however, as a genuine clergyman who has been suffering loss of memory, thus the marriage turns out to be legal after all.

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
Oct 25, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Screen Classics, Inc.
Distribution Company
Metro Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Please Get Married by James Cullen, Lewis Allen Browne (New York, 10 Feb 1919).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5-7 reels

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Trivia

Notes

The film's seaside scenes were shot in Long Beach, CA. A pre-release news item states that, in addition to the film's art titles, David Anthony Tauszky had created "motion paintings" to appear in the film. Contemporary sources disagree on whether the film is five, six or seven reels long.