Movie: For Better, for Worse

Top 10 Billed Cast

Elliott Dexter
Elliott Dexter

Dr. Edward Meade

Tom Forman
Tom Forman

Richard Burton

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Sylvia Norcross

Sylvia Ashton
Sylvia Ashton

Sylvia's Aunt

Raymond Hatton
Raymond Hatton

Bud

Theodore Roberts
Theodore Roberts

Hospital Head

Wanda Hawley
Wanda Hawley

Betty Hoyt

Winter Hall
Winter Hall

Doctor

Jack Holt
Jack Holt

Crusader

Fred Huntley
Fred Huntley

Colonial Soldier

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    Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.

  • Release Date

    1919-04-26

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