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For Better, For Worse


Date: 1919
Type: Drama / War / Romance
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White / Silent
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Producer: Cecil B DeMille / Jesse L Lasky

Comment/Synopsis

Two men are in love with a woman. One goes off to the WW1 front and the other stays as a doctor to children. she marries the one who goes to the front even though she does not love him as she thinks the other a coward. when her husband is declared dead she decides to marry the other but he is not dead and turns up at the engagement party disfigured. This is Cecil B DeMille's attempt at World War 1 propaganda comparing the the war front and the home front, but gets bogged down in the melodrama of the relationships and Gloria Swanson's somewhat fickle character.

Actors


Elliott DexterElliott Dexter
Tom Forman
Gloria SwansonGloria Swanson
Sylvia Ashton
Raymond HattonRaymond Hatton
Theodore RobertsTheodore Roberts
Wanda Hawley
Winter Hall
Jack HoltJack Holt
Fred Huntley

Oscars

None
Production
Famous Players - Laskey Corporation