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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28 April 1919
When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consorts with philanderer Bert Brockwell.
16 November 1919
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11 October 1919
A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well.
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