So This Is Marriage

1924 film by Hobart Henley

November 24, 1924 (1924-11-24)

Running time

70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

So This Is Marriage is a lost 1924 American silent drama film directed by Hobart Henley. The film was originally released with sequences filmed in the Technicolor 2-color process that depicted the story of David and Bathsheba from the Book of Samuel.^[1]^[2]

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[3] after their engagement, where he dreams of wealth and power, a big house full of boys, and she of clothes, Peter Marsh (Nagel) marries Beth (Boardman) and their troubles begin. Beth is extravagant and Peter becomes irritated and they have frequent rows. Peter prospers in business yet has a hard time meeting their bills. Rankin (Cody), a connoisseur of women, sees Beth and frames-up an accident to her car so he can come to her assistance. Finally, he invites her to a dance and Peter, who has chided her regarding this acquaintance as he sees how Rankin is endeavoring to win his wife, orders her not to go. She goes anyway and they have a terrible row. Beth leaves and goes to Rankin who, finding that she still loves her husband, tells her the story of the woe that befell King David (Oland) and Bathsheba (Scott) because of their forbidden love. Beth sees the point and goes back to her husband and baby, while Rankin prepares for other conquests.

Cast

Conrad Nagel as Peter Marsh
Eleanor Boardman as Beth Marsh
Lew Cody as Daniel Rankin
Clyde Cook as Mr. Brown
Edward Connelly as Nathan
John Boles as Uriah
Warner Oland as King David
Mabel Julienne Scott as Bath-Sheba
Miss DuPont as Vera Kellogg
John Patrick as Augustus Sharp
Claire de Lorez as Mrs. Stuyvesant Lane
Shannon Day as Mollie O'Brien
Jack Edwards as Bobbie
Estelle Clark as Maid
Thelma Morgan as Theress
Francis McDonald as Smith
Eugenia Gilbert as Dorothy Pringle (credited as Eugenie Gilbert)
Sidney Bracey as Hawkins
Tom O'Brien as Riley
Philip Sleeman as Donald Gibson
Anne Sheridan as Daisy de Belle (credited as Gloria Heller)
William H. Crane
Huntley Gordon
William Haines
Norman Kerry
Louis Payne

Preservation

With no copies or prints of So This Is Marriage located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film. The last known copy of this film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire.

References

^ "Elaborate biblical scenes to be made in color for Metro Production". American Cinematographer. 4: 13. November 1924. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
^ Progressive Silent Film List: So This Is Marriage at silentera.com
^ Sewell, Charles S. (January 3, 1925). "So This Is Marriage; Metro-Goldwyn Comedy-Drama of Newly Married Life Provides Thoroughly Enjoyable Entertainment". The Moving Picture World. 72 (1). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 57.
^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: So This Is Marriage?