''Cupid Forecloses'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film starring

Bessie Love Bessie Love (born Juanita Horton; September 10, 1898April 26, 1986) was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent, young girls and wholesome leading ladies in silent and early sound films. Her acting career spanned e ...

and

Wallace MacDonald Wallace Archibald MacDonald (5 May 1891 – 30 October 1978) was a Canadian silent film actor and film producer. Biography MacDonald was born in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada, and attended school in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He started as a mess ...

. It was directed by David Smith and produced by

Vitagraph Studios Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907 ...

. It was based on the popular novel ''Hurrying Fate and Geraldine'' by Florence Morse Kingsley. The film has been preserved at the

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and

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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.

Cast

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* * * 1919 comedy films 1919 films American black-and-white films Silent American comedy films American silent feature films Films based on American novels Films directed by David Smith (director) Surviving American silent films 1910s American films {{1910s-comedy-film-stub