The Spite Bride
Cast & Crew
Charles Giblyn
Olive Thomas
Robert Ellis
Jack Mulhall
Claire Dubrey
Irene Rich
Film Details
Synopsis
Tessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister act, becomes embroiled in a scheme to earn money at her partner Trixie Dennis' insistence. When millionaire Billy Swayne is jilted by his fiancée, Millicent Lee, he and his friend Rodney Dolson get drunk and decide that Billy must get married that night. Tessa agrees to marry Billy so that Trixie can use the money to obtain a divorce. After the marriage, Trixie tries to blackmail Billy. Tessa becoms angry and leaves without accepting any payment. Later, after she has become the private secretary to a woman who turns out to be Billy's mother, Tessa meets Billy again. They fall in love and get married again.
Director
Charles Giblyn
Cast
Olive Thomas
Robert Ellis
Jack Mulhall
Claire Dubrey
Irene Rich
Dorothy Wallace
Lamar Johnston
Katherine Griffith
Molly Malone
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Notes
According to a pre-production news item, Louise Winter's novel appreared in serial form in a "popular magazine." Some scenes for the film were shot in the San Francisco Bay Area and at the Hotel Alexandria, Grauman's theater and the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles.
