For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse - was released on: 27 April 1919.

The movie had an excellent cast consisting of:

- Elliott Dexter… Dr. Edward Meade
- Tom Forman… Richard Burton
- Gloria Swanson… Sylvia Norcross
- Sylvia Ashton… Sylvia’s Aunt
- Raymond Hatton… Bud
- Theodore Roberts… Hospital Head
- Wanda Hawley… Betty Hoyt
- Winter Hall… Doctor
- Jack Holt… Crusader
- Fred Huntley… Colonial Soldier

Here is a summary of the film’s plot:

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. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}

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