Cheaper to Marry

Cheaper to Marry
Cheaper to Marry
Directed by	Robert Z. Leonard
Written by	Alice D. G. Miller
Based on	Cheaper to Marry; by Samuel Shipman
Starring	Conrad Nagel; Lewis Stone; Marguerite De La Motte; Paulette Duval
Cinematography	André Barlatier
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	February 9, 1925;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Cheaper to Marry is a 1925 American film starring Conrad Nagel, Lewis Stone, Marguerite De La Motte and Paulette Duval. The film was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and written by Alice D. G. Miller based upon a play by Samuel Shipman.^[1]

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[2] on being taken into the Wall Street broker firm of Knight & Tylor, Dick Tyler (Nagel) proposes to Doris (La MOtte), an artist, and is accepted. On hearing this, his older and more experienced partner Jim Knight (Stone) tells him that he is making a mistake as a wife interferes too much with a young man in business. Attending a dinner given by her old schoolmate Evelyn (Duval), Doris is impressed by her luxurious mode of living. Dick is surprised to find that Jim is there and soon learns that Evelyn is his partner's mistress. A crisis arises in the business and it develops that Jim has squandered the firm's surplus on Evelyn. Jim goes to her for aid but she turns him down. Doris pleads with a banker friend, who is so much impressed that he agrees to accept Dick's personal note to tide them over. They go to inform Jim, but find that Jim has taken his own life. The banker marries Doris' friend Flora (Fazenda). The two couples, contrasting their situation own with Jim' experience, decide it is better in every way and cheaper to marry.