Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
Watch the official For Better, for Worse 1919 trailer in HD below.
Elliott Dexter as Dr. Edward Meade
Tom Forman as Richard Burton
Gloria Swanson as Sylvia Norcross
Sylvia Ashton as Sylvia's Aunt
Raymond Hatton as Bud
Theodore Roberts as Hospital Head
Wanda Hawley as Betty Hoyt
Winter Hall as Doctor
Jack Holt as Crusader
Fred Huntley as Colonial Soldier
Mae Giraci as Little Girl
Cecil B. DeMille Director
Jeanie Macpherson Story
Edgar Selwyn Theatre Play
William C. de Mille Writer
United States 26 April 1919
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01 April 1919
Rural melodrama about the social and humanistic events that occurred at the dawn of the past times.
29 June 1919
A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.
13 July 1919
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
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When jockey Jimmie Driscoll, responsible for making Jim Richardson's horses winners, is fired for being too heavy, he goes to the home of the late Judge Bell, the father of local horse racing.
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In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in hopes of finding her beloved, but even after he and the other Acadians are released in Louisiana, she cannot find him, always arriving at some locale just after he has departed.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1919 Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.
