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  • A Million Bid (1914)
  • 50 min | Drama, Romance
A Million Bid (1914)
50 min | Drama, Romance

The story concerns a mercenary and managing mother and her daughter, Agnes. The young lady loves a youthful doctor, but a match is frustrated by the mother, who seeks to marry the daughter to the highest bidder. The mother's extravagance ...See moreThe story concerns a mercenary and managing mother and her daughter, Agnes. The young lady loves a youthful doctor, but a match is frustrated by the mother, who seeks to marry the daughter to the highest bidder. The mother's extravagance ruins the father, who, being in ill health, succumbs to heart failure. With poverty staring them in the face, the mother takes Agnes abroad, finally forcing her into a marriage with an Australian millionaire. To do so, the mother intercepts all letters between Agnes and the young doctor, with the result that each feels that the other has ceased to care. The millionaire and his young wife, while on their honeymoon on his yacht, are shipwrecked. He is dealt a terrible blow on the head, and it completely destroys his memory. The young wife is saved and returns to America, while her husband is picked up by a French fisherman. His memory gone, he does not recall his previous existence in America. Agnes and the doctor renew their love affair and finally marry, excellent proof having been furnished that her former husband had drowned in the shipwreck. There is no opposition to the marriage now, as the mother also had perished in the catastrophe. Five years later, the young doctor has become a famous brain specialist. To him, Agnes' former husband comes for an operation in the hope of restoring his lost memory. The two men, never having met, fail to learn they are both married to the same woman. She discovers it, however, and with her happiness at stake, does not tell her surgeon-husband the truth, but attempts to dissuade him from operating on her first husband, fearful that the operation will prove successful and her first husband regain his lost memory and recognize her as his wife. The humanity in the surgeon surmounts his wife's pleas, but the patient fails to withstand the operation and Agnes' happiness is assured, despite the terrible situations which confronted her. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Ralph Ince (as Ralph W. Ince)
Writers
Marguerite Bertsch | Mrs. Sidney Drew (play) (as George Cameron) | Ralph Ince
Cinematographer
William T. Stuart (as William T. Stewart)
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Updated Feb 7, 1914

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Apr 1914 (United States)

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9 cast members
Name Known for
Anita Stewart
Agnes Belgradin Agnes Belgradin   See fewer
E.K. Lincoln
Loring Brent Loring Brent   See fewer
Charles Kent
Sidney Belgradin Sidney Belgradin   See fewer
Julia Swayne Gordon
Mrs. Belgradin Mrs. Belgradin   See fewer
Harry T. Morey
Geoffrey Marshe (as Harry Morey) Geoffrey Marshe (as Harry Morey)   See fewer
Gladden James
Harry Furniss Harry Furniss   See fewer
Donald Hall
French Artist French Artist   See fewer
Kate Price
Squires Squires   See fewer
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