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  • The Affiancéd Wife (1915)
  • Short | Drama, Short
The Affiancéd Wife (1915)
Short | Drama, Short
Vera Ashton's brother has led her into a life of crime, and forced her to assist him in his criminal operations. The night on which the story opens they have committed a robbery and stolen some valuable jewelry. The police are summoned and...See moreVera Ashton's brother has led her into a life of crime, and forced her to assist him in his criminal operations. The night on which the story opens they have committed a robbery and stolen some valuable jewelry. The police are summoned and given a description of the stolen loot. Jennings, a detective, finds Jim Ashton's jimmy and on it Jim's thumb print. He takes it down to headquarters. Several days later Jim visits a pawnshop to pawn the loot. Vera takes advantage of his absence to pack up and get out. The pawnbroker recognizes the loot offered for pawn by Jim as the proceeds of a recent robbery. He secretly notifies the police and detains Jim until they arrive. Jim is arrested and taken up to the central station, where he denies the crime and offers the alibi that a friend gave him the jewelry to pawn for him. The police take Jim's thumb prints and compare them with these on his jimmy and find they match. Suspecting that Jim's sister is implicated in the robbery, the chief sends two detectives to place her under arrest. She sees them coming and escapes in a series of exciting scenes across the roofs of nearby tenements and makes good her escape. Jim is convicted and sent to prison. Vera becomes a stenographer and secures employment with Dixon and Co., a wealthy contracting firm. Three years pass. Vera and Dixon are in love. She is a trusted employee. Dixon goes to lunch leaving the outer safe door open, but the inner door locked. Jim, paroled from prison, learns from a friend where Vera is working and calls upon her at the noon hour. Vera is astounded to see him, believing him still in prison. Jim proposes to her that they rob her employer's safe and she indignantly refuses. Jim overpowers her and starts to rob the safe. She secures his pistol and shoots him as he refuses to put back the loot. Dixon returns and Jim, dying, accuses Vera or being bis sister and tells him that she has been a fool all her life. The police sent for by Dixon, arrive, and recognize Vera. They start to handcuff her, but Vera tells them that they are mistaken in their identity and Dixon tells them that she has been his stenographer for three years and is his affianced wife. Jim has died and the police have no means of proving it otherwise, so they leave the girl and Dixon in each other's arms and carry Jim from the scene. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Writer
Richard V. Spencer (story)
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Thomas H. Ince
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Updated May 12, 1915
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May 12, 1915 (United States)

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3 cast members
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Leona Hutton
Vera Ashton Vera Ashton   See fewer
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George Fisher
Jim Ashton Jim Ashton   See fewer
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Harry Keenan
Dixon (as Harry G. Keenan) Dixon (as Harry G. Keenan)   See fewer
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