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The Black Stork
Also known as Are You Fit to Marry? in the USA
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Leopold D. Wharton and Theodore W. Wharton

Cast: Jane Fearnley [Miriam Fontaine], Allan Murname [Tom Watson], Doctor Harry J. Haiselden [Doctor Dickey; and himself], Hamilton Revelle [Claude Leffingwell], Elsie Esmond [Anne Schultz], Henry Bergman [the detective], John T. Miltern, Edgar L. Davenport, George Moss, Elsie Baker, Bessie Emerick (Bessie Wharton), Frances White

Wharton, Incorporated, production; distributed on State Rights basis by Sheriott Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Jack Lait. / © 8 December 1916 by Black Stork Company [LU9978]. Released February 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was presented by the Moral Uplift League in Baltimore, Maryland, as Are You Fit to Marry? in 1919.

Drama: Social.

Survival status: Print exists [1927 rerelease version, released as Are You Fit to Marry?].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Children: Infants - Death - Dying - Eugenics - Handicaps - Heredity - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - Marriages - Medical: Doctors

Listing updated: 19 August 2009.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

 
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