- Country: N/A
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1919-09-21
- Director: Charles Giblyn
- Writers: Louise Winter , Lillian Ducey
- Language: None
- Stars: Olive Thomas , Robert Ellis , Jack Mulhall , Claire Du Brey , Irene Rich , Dorothy Wallace
- Runtime: min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Les aïeux ordonnent (France, French Republic) , The Spite Bride (United States of America) , The Spite Bride
- Plot: Tessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister act, becomes embroiled in a scheme to earn money at her partner Trixie Dennis' insistence. When millionaire Billy Swayne is jilted by his fiancee, Millicent Lee, he and his friend Rodney Dolson get drunk and decide that Billy must get married that night. Tessa agrees to marry Billy so that Trixie can use the money to obtain a divorce. After the marriage, Trixie tries to blackmail Billy. Tessa becomes angry and leaves without accepting any payment. Later, after she has become the private secretary to a woman who turns out to be Billy's mother, Tessa meets Billy again. They fall in love and get married again.
- IMDB:tt0194399
The Spite Bride Cast · · · ALL
Charles Giblyn
Director
Olive Thomas
Tessa Doyle
Robert Ellis
Billy Swayne
Jack Mulhall
Rodney Dolson
Claire Du Brey
Trixie Dennis
Irene Rich
Eileen Moore
Dorothy Wallace
Millicent Lee
Katherine Griffith
Countess di Raspoli
Molly Malone
Vaudevillian