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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1425

Matrimony's Speed Limit

191314 minUnited States

Synopsis

A woman invents an inheritance that her fiancé can claim only by marrying before noon. As he desperately proposes to strangers, she races to reach him before her plan produces the wrong bride.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 13:32
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Alice Guy-Blaché · Public domain

Cast

Fraunie Fraunholz

Marian Swayne

DirectorsAlice Guy-Blaché

Historical context

Alice Guy-Blaché made the comedy at Solax in Fort Lee. The film gives the woman control of the scheme, while also containing a blackface episode rooted in the period's racial prejudice.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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Fraunie Fraunholz — Alice Guy-Blaché; Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers · Public domain
Marian Swayne — Fanark Corporation / Pioneer Film Corporation; Exhibitors Herald (Oct. - Dec. 1920) on the Internet Archive · Public domain

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