Love Insurance

Love Insurance
Still with Bryant Washburn, Lois Wilson, and John Cossar
Directed by	Donald Crisp Frank Richardson (ass't director)
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Written by	Marion Fairfax (scenario)
Based on	Love Insurance by Earl Derr Biggers
Cinematography	Charles Schoenbaum (as C. Edgar Schoenbaum)
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	August 17, 1919 (1919-08-17)
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Love Insurance is a lost^[1] 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the novel of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance.^[2]^[3]

Love Insurance was later remade in 1924 as The Reckless Age and in sound era in 1940 as One Night in the Tropics.

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[4] Lord Allan Harrowby (Elliott), upon arriving in America to wed an heiress, goes to the New York office of Lloyd's of London and insures against the lady changing her mind. Dick Minot (Washburn), assistant manager of the office, is assigned to the task of preventing that occurrence. He meets Cynthia Meyrick (Wilson), the lady in question, but not knowing her identity falls in love with her. However, business is his first thought and when she decides that she does not love her fiance and is about to break her engagement, he does all in his power to bring about the wedding. This involves defeating a stranger who claims to be the real Lord Harrowby, outwitting a customs official who seeks to arrest the nobleman for smuggling in a diamond necklace, the routing of a clever criminal who tries to steal the necklace, and effecting the dismissal of a young woman who threatens a suit for breach of promise. After all this is effected and the wedding about to proceed, Cynthia again changes her mind, but this time it is because of an act by Harrowby. By the terms of the policy, this releases the company, so Dick presents his own case to Cynthia, which she accepts and they elope.

Cast

Bryant Washburn as Dick Minot
Lois Wilson as Cynthia Meyrick
Theodore Roberts as Spencer Meyrick
Frances Raymond as Mary Meyrick
Frank Elliott as Allan Harrowby
Edwin Stevens as Martin Wall
Clarence Geldart as George Harrowby
A. Edward Sutherland as Jack Paddock
P. Dempsey Tabler as Hunt
Fred E. Wright as O'Malley
Edward Alexander as Jarvis
Wilton Taylor as Stacy
Fred Huntley as Jenkins
Willard Louis as Trimmer
Ethel Fleming as Gabrielle

References

↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Love Insurance
↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Love Insurance at silentera.com
↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Love Insurance
↑ "Reviews: Love Insurance". Exhibitors Herald (New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company) 9 (9): 57. August 23, 1919.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Love Insurance.

Love Insurance at the Internet Movie Database
allmovie.com
Film still (University of Washington, Sayre collection)
Film stills at silenthollywood.com

Films directed by Donald Crisp

1910s	Her Father's Silent Partner (1914) short The Mysterious Shot (1914) short The Newer Woman (1914) short Their First Acquaintance (1914) short The Weaker Strain (1914) short The Idiot (1914) short The Tavern of Tragedy (1914) short Her Mother's Necklace (1914) short Frenchy (1914) short Down the Hill to Creditville (1914) short The Great God Fear (1914) short His Mother's Trust (1914) short Sands of Fate (1914) short The Warning (1914) short The Availing Prayer (1914) short Paid with Interest (1914) short The Niggard (1914) short The Little Country Mouse (1914) short Another Chance (1914) short At Dawn (1914) short An Old-Fashioned Girl (1915) short How Hazel Got Even (1915) short Ramona (1916) The Eyes of the World (1917) His Sweetheart (1917) The Bond Between (1917) The Marcellini Millions (1917) A Roadside Impresario (1917) The Cook of Canyon Camp (1917) Lost in Transit (1917) The Countess Charming (1917) The Clever Mrs. Carfax (1917) Jules of the Strong Heart (1918) Rimrock Jones (1918) The House of Silence (1918) Believe Me, Xantippe (1918) The Firefly of France (1918) Less Than Kin (1918) The Goat (1918) The Way of a Man with a Maid (1918) Under the Top (1919) Venus in the East (1919) The Poor Boob (1919) Johnny Get Your Gun (1919) Something to Do (1919) Putting It Over (1919) A Very Good Young Man (1919) Love Insurance (1919) Why Smith Left Home (1919) It Pays to Advertise (1919) Too Much Johnson (1919)

1920s	The Six Best Cellars (1920) Miss Hobbs (1920) Held by the Enemy (1920) The Barbarian (1921) The Princess of New York (1921) Appearances (1921) The Bonnie Brier Bush (1921) Tell Your Children (1922) Ponjola (1924) The Navigator (1924) Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925) Sunny Side Up (1926) Young April (1926) Nobody's Widow (1927) Man Bait (1927) Vanity (1927) The Fighting Eagle (1927) Dress Parade (1927) Stand and Deliver (1928) The Cop (1928)

1930s	The Runaway Bride (1930)

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