Yesterday's Wife is a lost[1] 1923 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Irene Rich, Eileen Percy, and Lottie Williams. The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation, which would later become Columbia Pictures.[2][3]
| Yesterday's Wife | |
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| Directed by | Edward LeSaint |
| Written by | Evelyn Campbell |
| Produced by | Harry Cohn |
| Starring | Irene Rich Eileen Percy Lottie Williams |
| Cinematography | King D. Gray |
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| Distributed by | CBC Film Sales Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 56 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot
editAs described in a film magazine review,[4] following a mutual misunderstanding, a divorce decree parts Gilbert and Megan Armes. She becomes a companion to an old lady while Gilbert weds Viola, who is frivolous and a flirt. Megan and her former husband meet years later at a fashionable resort and find that they are still in love with each other. Viola is drowned in a boating accident. Megan and Gilbert re-marry.
Cast
edit- Irene Rich as Megan Daye
- Eileen Percy as Viola Armes
- Lottie Williams as Sophia
- Josephine Crowell as Mrs. Harbours
- Lewis Dayton as Gilbert Armes
- Philo McCullough as Victor Fleming
- William Scott as Jeo Coombs
References
edit- ^ "Yesterday's Wife [motion picture]". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
- ^ Munden p. 931
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Yesterday's Wife (Wayback)
- ^ Pardy, George T. (February 9, 1924). "Box Office Reviews: Yesterday's Wife". Exhibitors Trade Review. 15 (12). New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 28. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Bibliography
edit- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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- Yesterday's Wife at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- lobby poster(archived)
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