Almost a Husband

WILL ROGERS An actor that never acts

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1919 / 50min.

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Genres

Comedy

Synopsis

A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well. The teacher pretends to marry the girl to fool the unwanted suitor, but then finds that the marriage was inadvertently legal....

Directors

Clarence G. Badger

Actors

Peggy Wood

Will Rogers

Sidney De Gray

Mary Jane Irving

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Ed Brady

Gus Saville

Cullen Landis

Clara Horton

Herbert Standing

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