Cupid Forecloses
{{short description|1919 silent film by David Smith}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Cupid Forecloses
| image = Cupid Forecloses (1919) - Love.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Advertisement from Motion Picture News
| native_name =
| director = David Smith
| producer =
| writer = Stanley Olmstead
Edward J. Montagne
| screenplay =
| story =
| based_on = {{based on|Hurrying Fate and Geraldine (novel)|Florence Morse Kingsley}}
| starring = Bessie Love
Wallace MacDonald
| narrator =
| music =
| cinematography = Clyde De Vinna{{cite book |last=Love |first=Bessie |year=1977 |title=From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love |location=London |publisher=Elm Tree Books|oclc=734075937|page=150}}
| editing =
| studio = Vitagraph Studios
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|1919|7|12|U.S.|ref1=}}
| runtime = 5 reels{{cite news|newspaper=The Barrier Miner|location=Broken Hill, NSW|date=December 22, 1919|page=3|title=Amusements – Lenard's Big Show|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45499694}}
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
File:Cupid Forecloses (1919) - Love 4.jpg ]]
Cupid Forecloses is a 1919 American silent comedy film starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald. It was directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios. It was based on the popular novel Hurrying Fate and Geraldine by Florence Morse Kingsley. The film has been preserved at the British Film Institute and American Film Institute.{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=1&Movie=17444|website=American Film Institute|title=Cupid Forecloses|accessdate=December 7, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7071b49c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211001644/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7071b49c|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 11, 2014|website=British Film Institute|title=Cupid Forecloses (1919)|accessdate=December 7, 2014}}
Plot
{{More plot|date=December 2014}}
Geraldine Farleigh (Love), a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright. She falls in love with the man she believes is a lawyer representing Cartwright (MacDonald), who turns out to be Cartwright himself.{{cite news|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=ODT19200904.2.2.8|title=Amusements|newspaper=Otago Daily Times|issue=18032|date=September 4, 1920|page=1}}
Cast
File:Cupid Forecloses (1919) - Love 3.jpg
{{castlist|
- Bessie Love as Geraldine Farleigh{{cite magazine|magazine=Motion Picture News|title=Cupid Forecloses (Vitagraph)|date=July 12, 1919|page=601|last=Reid|first=Laurence}}
- Dorothea Wolbert as Mrs. Farleigh
- Wallace MacDonald as Bruce Cartwright
- Frank Hayes as Oliver Brown
- Jim Donnelly as Jim Connors
- Aggie Herring as Mrs. Connors
- Jake Abram as Rufe Tinker
- Anne Schaefer as Aunt Adelaide
- Gordon Griffith as Nat Farleigh
- Otto Lederer as The Postmaster
}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Cupid Forecloses}}
- {{IMDb title|0010035}}
- {{AFI film|17444}}
{{David Smith|state=expanded}}
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Silent American comedy films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Films based on American novels
Category:Films directed by David Smith (director)
Category:Surviving American silent films
Category:1910s English-language films
Category:English-language comedy films
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