Half a Bride

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.

1928•1h 7m•6.7/10

DramaRomanceAdventure

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.7/10(3)

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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Production

Paramount Pictures, Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Esther Ralston

Esther Ralston

Patience Winslow

Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

Capt. Edmunds

William Worthington

William Worthington

Mr. Winslow

Freeman Wood

Freeman Wood

Jed Sessions

Mary Doran

Mary Doran

Betty Brewster

Guy Oliver

Guy Oliver

Chief Engineer

Ray Gallagher

Ray Gallagher

Engineer

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