Why Get Married?

{{short description|1924 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Why Get Married? | image = Why Get Married? (SAYRE 13959).jpg | caption = | director =Paul Cazeneuve | producer =Léo-Ernest Ouimet |based_on = | writer = William M. Conselman | narrator = | starring =Andrée Lafayette <br> Jack Perrin <br> Helen Ferguson | music = | cinematography =Georges Benoît | editing = | studio =Laurel Productions | distributor = Regal Films<br>Associated Exhibitors | released = {{film date|1924|02|10}} | runtime =59 minutes | country = Canada<br>United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Why Get Married?''''' is a 1924 American-Canadian silent drama film directed by Paul Cazeneuve and starring Andrée Lafayette, Jack Perrin, and Helen Ferguson.<ref>Connelly p. 307</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref name="ETR">{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: ''Why Get Married?'' |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume= |issue= |pages=25 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=12 April 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n436/mode/1up |accessdate=7 November 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Marcia Wainwright, a young married woman, works in the Robert Strong offices. Janet Carroll, another employee, leaves her job to be a housewife when she weds James Allen. Jack Wainwright, Marcia's husband, meets with misfortune and becomes a freight handler. Marcia is promoted and a breach widens between her and her husband Jack. Rodney Strong begins to pay attention to Marcia and writes her anonymous letters which injure her and the Allens by hinting at a liaison between Marcia and James Allen. Jack Wainwright makes good, discovers Rodney's plot, thrashes him, and wins back the affections of his wife. Marcia quits her position. The Allens are reconciled.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Andrée Lafayette as Marcia Wainright * Jack Perrin as Jack Wainright * Helen Ferguson as Janet Allen * Bernard Randall as Rodney Strong * Max Constant as James B. Allen * William H. Turner as Mr. Carroll * Orpha Alba as Mrs. Carroll * Edwin B. Tilton as John Strong * Buddy Smith as Boy (uncredited) }}

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

==External links== {{commons category|Why Get Married?}} * {{IMDb title|0208571}}

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