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The Reckless Age
The Reckless Age is a 1924 silent film comedy-drama directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Reginald Denny. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is based on the novel "Love Insurance" by Earl Derr Biggers and is a remake of an earlier Paramount film "Love Insurance" (1919), now lost.
This film is preserved at Filmmuseum Amsterdam.
Cast.
- Reginald Denny - Dick Minot
- Ruth Dwyer - Cynthia Meyrick
- John Steppling - Spencer
of the family's holdings and to marry the wealthy Henrietta Meriton in 1765. His daughter entered society at the age of twelve, leaving school and being tutored at home. His reckless spending then forced her to marry early. In a marriage that she later described as prostitution, she was given by her father to a violent and profligate man. On 23 February 1765, at the age of fifteen, she married Benjamin Smith, the son of Richard Smith, a wealthy West Indian merchant and a director of the East India