Balked at the Altar
About Balked at the Altar
A woman tells everyone she wants a husband. Her father pushes an eligible bachelor into a wedding. At the altar the groom balks. D. W. Griffith directed the Biograph comedy. Mack Sennett is in the cast.
Cast & crew
More about Balked at the Altar
Griffith wrote and directed. Arthur Marvin photographed. Biograph made it in Fort Lee. Released in October 1908. Mabel Stoughton, Robert Harron, Linda Arvidson, George Gebhardt, and Arthur V. Johnson are billed. A print is in the Library of Congress.
Themes
Look
Arthur Marvin shot the wedding in Fort Lee.
Preservation
A print is in the Library of Congress.
Notes
- The balk is the groom's, at the altar, not the bride's.
- Harron and Sennett are both in the wedding crowd.
- Arvidson, Griffith's wife, is billed.
- The surviving print is at the Library of Congress.
Scenes
- The groom refuses to go on once he is at the altar.
Also available
- Library of Congress
