A Fugitive from Matrimony
"No Use Trying to Run From Cupid When He Gets After You."
1919 · 50m Comedy, Crime
Overview
The Riggs family, newly wealthy from Oklahoma oil, move to an estate in Ossining, New York, adjoining that of eligible bachelor Stephen Van Courtlandt, who wants to avoid marriage. Mrs. Riggs, anxious to break into society, wants her daughter Barbara to marry Stephen.
Director and cast
- H.B. Warner as Stephen Van Courtlandt
- Seena Owen as Barbara Riggs
- Adele Farrington as Mrs. E. Elmer Riggs
- Christine Mayo as Edythe Arlington
- John Gough as Chimmy the Cricket
- Lule Warrenton as Mother Kelly
- Walter Perry as Zachariah E. Riggs
- Matthew Biddulph as Maurice Bradford
- Irene De Voss as A Little Consumptive
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