A Fugitive from Matrimony (1919)
"No Use Trying to Run From Cupid When He Gets After You."
The Riggs family, newly wealthy from Oklahoma oil, move to an estate in Ossining, New York, adjoining that of eligible bachelor Stephen Van Courtlandt, who wants to avoid marriage. Mrs. Riggs, anxious to break into society, wants her daughter Barbara to marry Stephen.
- Date of release
- 1919-11-23
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Director
- Henry King
Casting
- H.B. Warner — Stephen Van Courtlandt
- Seena Owen — Barbara Riggs
- Adele Farrington — Mrs. E. Elmer Riggs
- Christine Mayo — Edythe Arlington
- John Gough — Chimmy the Cricket
- Lule Warrenton — Mother Kelly
- Walter Perry — Zachariah E. Riggs
- Matthew Biddulph — Maurice Bradford
- Irene De Voss — A Little Consumptive
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