# Love Insurance
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{{short description|1919 film by Donald Crisp}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Love Insurance
| image = Love Insurance (1919) 1.jpg
| caption = Bryant Washburn, Lois Wilson
and John Cossar
| director = [Donald Crisp](/source/Donald_Crisp)
| producer = [Adolph Zukor](/source/Adolph_Zukor)
[Jesse Lasky](/source/Jesse_Lasky)
| writer = [Marion Fairfax](/source/Marion_Fairfax) (scenario)
| based_on = {{based on|''Love Insurance''|[Earl Derr Biggers](/source/Earl_Derr_Biggers)}}
| cinematography = [Charles Schoenbaum](/source/Charles_Schoenbaum) (as C. Edgar Schoenbaum)
| editing =
| distributor = [Paramount Pictures](/source/Paramount_Pictures)
| released = {{Film date|1919|8|17}}
| runtime = 5 [reels](/source/reel)
| country = United States
| language = [Silent](/source/silent_film) (English [intertitle](/source/intertitle)s)
}}
'''''Love Insurance''''' is a [lost](/source/lost_film)[{{Cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7092/default.html |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Love Insurance'' |access-date=July 26, 2014 |archive-date=December 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227035727/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7092/default.html |url-status=live }}] 1919 American silent [comedy film](/source/comedy_film) directed by [Donald Crisp](/source/Donald_Crisp), produced by [Famous Players–Lasky](/source/Famous_Players%E2%80%93Lasky) and distributed by [Paramount Pictures](/source/Paramount_Pictures). It is based on the novel of the same name by [Earl Derr Biggers](/source/Earl_Derr_Biggers), ''Love Insurance''.[[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LoveInsurance1919.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Love Insurance''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219033142/https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LoveInsurance1919.html |date=February 19, 2023 }} at silentera.com][{{Cite web |title=The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Love Insurance |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17422-LOVE-INSURANCE |access-date=2026-02-10 |website=catalog.afi.com}}]
''Love Insurance'' was later [remade](/source/remake) in 1924 as ''[The Reckless Age](/source/The_Reckless_Age)'' and in the sound era in 1940 as ''[One Night in the Tropics](/source/One_Night_in_the_Tropics)''.
==Plot==
As described in a [film magazine](/source/film_magazine),[{{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''Love Insurance'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=9 |issue=9 |page=57 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=August 23, 1919 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald09exhi}}] Lord Allan Harrowby, upon arriving in America to wed an heiress, goes to the New York office of [Lloyd's of London](/source/Lloyd's_of_London) and insures against the lady changing her mind. Dick Minot, assistant manager of the office, is assigned to the task of preventing that occurrence. He meets Cynthia Meyrick, the lady in question, but not knowing her identity falls in love with her. However, business is his first thought and when she decides that she does not love her fiancé and is about to break her engagement, he does all in his power to bring about the wedding. This involves defeating a stranger who claims to be the real Lord Harrowby, outwitting a customs official who seeks to arrest the nobleman for smuggling in a diamond necklace, the routing of a clever criminal who tries to steal the necklace, and effecting the dismissal of a young woman who threatens a suit for [breach of promise](/source/breach_of_promise). After all this is effected and the wedding about to proceed, Cynthia again changes her mind, but this time it is because of an act by Harrowby. By the terms of the policy, this releases the company, so Dick presents his own case to Cynthia, which she accepts and they [elope](/source/Elopement_(marriage)).
==Cast==
*[Bryant Washburn](/source/Bryant_Washburn) as Dick Minot
*[Lois Wilson](/source/Lois_Wilson_(actress)) as Cynthia Meyrick
*[Theodore Roberts](/source/Theodore_Roberts) as Spencer Meyrick
*[Frances Raymond](/source/Frances_Raymond) as Mary Meyrick
*[Frank Elliott](/source/Frank_Elliott_(actor)) as Allan Harrowby
*[Edwin Stevens](/source/Edwin_Stevens_(actor)) as Martin Wall
*[Clarence Geldart](/source/Clarence_Geldart) as George Harrowby
*[A. Edward Sutherland](/source/A._Edward_Sutherland) as Jack Paddock
*[P. Dempsey Tabler](/source/P._Dempsey_Tabler) as Hunt
*[Fred E. Wright](/source/Fred_E._Wright_(director)) as O'Malley
*Edward Alexander as Jarvis
*[Wilton Taylor](/source/Wilton_Taylor) as Stacy
*[Fred Huntley](/source/Fred_Huntley) as Jenkins
*[Willard Louis](/source/Willard_Louis) as Trimmer
*[Ethel Fleming](/source/Ethel_Fleming) as Gabrielle
==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Love Insurance}}
*{{IMDb title|0010396|Love Insurance}}
*[http://www.allmovie.com/movie/love-insurance-v100375 allmovie.com]
*[http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/sayre/id/13505/rec/5 Film still] (University of Washington, Sayre collection)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111108033729/http://silenthollywood.com/loveinsurance1919.html Film stills] at silenthollywood.com
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