The Matrimonial Martyr
Cast & Crew
Sherwood Macdonald
Ruth Roland
Andrew Arbuckle
Marguerite Nichols
R. Henry Gray
Madeleine Pardee
Film Details
Synopsis
Erma Desmond gets a job as a companion to high society's Bertie Stanley, to whom she bears a striking resemblance. While her husband Hugo has been in Europe, Bertie has fallen in love with another man, so she makes plans to go to Reno for a divorce. She urges Erma to stay in the Stanley mansion and assume her identity while she is gone, so that no one will be aware of her absence. An obedient Erma agrees and the masquerade works perfectly until Hugo returns unexpectedly from Europe and Erma must fool the man who knows Bertie best. After some initial problems, Hugo gets along better with Erma than he ever did with Bertie, and as a result, when word comes that Bertie has a fresh divorce and a new husband, Hugo first determines the identity of the woman living with him, and then marries her.
Director
Sherwood Macdonald
Cast
Ruth Roland
Andrew Arbuckle
Marguerite Nichols
R. Henry Gray
Madeleine Pardee
Lulu Bowers
Fred Whitman
Daniel Gilfether
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Notes
The Matrimonial Martyr was hand-colored, in a process called Pathécolor. The film was copyrighted as The Matrimonial Martyr, but sources, except for Wid's, called it A Matrimonial Martyr.
