Scrambled Wives (1921)
Back to the screen comes Marguerite Clark in the happiest piece of hilarity you've ever seen her in.
Mary Lucille Smith, a schoolgirl who elopes with John Chiverick, gets her marriage annulled by her father, and later pretends to be a widow to romance another man, Larry McLeod, leading to chaotic mix-ups and hidden identities at a party where Chiverick's new wife also shows up, all about mistaken identities, secret pasts, and comedic marital mishaps.
- Date of release
- 1921-03-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Edward H. Griffith
Casting
- Marguerite Clark — Miss Mary Lucille Smith
- Pierre Gendron — Larry McLeod
- Ralph Bunker — John Chiverick
- Florence Martin — Bessie
- Virginia Lee — Beatrice Lee
- Alice Mann — Connie Chiverick
- America Chedister — Mrs. Halsey
- Frank Badgley — Dickie Van Arsdale
- John Mayer — Mr. Halsey
- John Washburn — Mr. Smith
- Thomas Braidon — Martin - The Butler
- Ada Neville — Mrs. Spencer
Interesting facts
Scrambled Wives is a lost 1921 American silent comedy film produced by and starring Marguerite Clark. It was directed by Edward H. Griffith and released through Associated First National. This film had one color sequence, presumably a 1-strip Technicolor process being that Technicolor's Ray June is one of the camera operators. This film marks Clark's final screen performance. It is not known whether the film currently survives. This film is based on the play The First Mrs. Chiverick by Adelaide Matthews.
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