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Half a Bride

Trial marriage. Front pages of the papers preach it. Disappointed couples advocate it. Come see the experiment put to the test in as entertaining a screen story as you've seen in months.
Jun 16, 1928 · 1h 7m
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Drama
Romance
Adventure

PLOT

Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned on a desert island with handsome Captain Edmunds. Her head full of notions that she's gleaned from radio dramas and pulp novels, Patience demands that she and Edmunds enter into an in-name-only marriage, observing the responsibilities and proprieties of matrimony without the sexual entanglements. Complications naturally arise.

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CAST

Esther Ralston
Patience Winslow
Gary Cooper
Capt. Edmunds
William Worthington
Mr. Winslow
Freeman Wood
Jed Sessions
Mary Doran
Betty Brewster
Guy Oliver
Chief Engineer
Ray Gallagher
Engineer
Directed by Gregory La Cava

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Paramount Pictures, Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Country
US

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