Cupid Forecloses

Cupid Forecloses
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Directed by David Smith
Written by Stanley Olmstead
Edward J. Montagne[1]
Based on Hurrying Fate and Geraldine
by Florence Morse Kingsley
Starring Bessie Love
Wallace MacDonald
Cinematography Clyde De Vinna[2]
Production
company
Release date
  • July 12, 1919 (1919-07-12)
[1][3]
Running time
 5 reels[3][4]
Unidentified actor and Bessie Love

Cupid Forecloses is a 1919 silent comedy[4] film starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald, directed by David Smith. 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.[1][5]

Plot

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.[5][6]

Cast

Bessie Love as schoolteacher Geraldine Farleigh

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Cupid Forecloses". American Film Institute. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 150. OCLC 734075937.
  3. 1 2 3 Reid, Laurence (July 12, 1919). "Cupid Forecloses (Vitagraph)". Motion Picture News: 601.
  4. 1 2 "Amusements – Lenard's Big Show". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW. December 22, 1919. p. 3.
  5. 1 2 "Cupid Forecloses (1919)". British Film Institute. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Amusements". Otago Daily Times (18032). September 4, 1920. p. 1.


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