| The Trouble with Wives | |
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| Directed by | Malcolm St. Clair |
| Screenplay by | Sada Cowan Howard Higgin |
| Produced by | Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor |
| Starring | Florence Vidor Tom Moore Esther Ralston Ford Sterling Lucy Beaumont Edgar Kennedy |
| Cinematography | L. Guy Wilky |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (Englishintertitles) |
The Trouble with Wives is a 1925 Americansilentcomedy film directed byMalcolm St. Clair, written bySada Cowan andHoward Higgin, and starringFlorence Vidor,Tom Moore,Esther Ralston,Ford Sterling,Lucy Beaumont, andEdgar Kennedy. It was released on September 28, 1925, byParamount Pictures.[1][2][3]
As described in a film magazine reviews,[4] Grace Hyatt suspects her businessman husband William of being infatuated with his shoe designer from Paris. Several situations develop which make it appear that William is interested in the young woman. Al Hennessey tells Grace that he and William have visited the woman's apartment. William becomes so uncomfortable with the situation at home that he leaves for a summer hotel. Grace determines that she will get a divorce. When she visits the hotel, she finds the other woman there is the bride of Al Hennessey. The Hyatts are reconciled.[5]
A key scene fromThe Trouble With Wives demonstrates the “extraordinary efforts” that director St. Clair went to in order to eliminateintertitles: The young wife (Florence Vidor) is led to suspect her husband (Tom Moore) of infidelities with blondevamp (Esther Ralston). The sequence is conducted entirely in cinematic pantomime related to the wife by her husband's friend (Ford Sterling).[6]
St. Clair, a cartoonist and graphic artist, designed and drew his own intertitles at Paramount when they were required.[7]
“The satirical point inThe Trouble With Wives is the male assumption regarding the way women handle money,” and conversely “that all wives inevitably fall into the trap of becoming suspicious of their husbands.”[8][9]
With no prints ofThe Trouble with Wives located in any film archives,[10] it is alost film.[11]
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain.