The Trouble With Wives

The Trouble With Wives (1925)

HUSBAND vs. WIFE in a comical clash for the Championship of the Home, Six rollicking rounds. Come and cheer the winner!

William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but hopelessly gauche pal, Al Hennessy (Sterling). Dagmar, a Parisian shoe designer (Esther Ralston) has come to town to meet with Hyatt and Hennessy, and Hennessy describes the situation to Grace in the worst possible manner, convincing her that her husband is having an affair.

Date of release
1925-09-28
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Malcolm St. Clair

Casting

Interesting facts

The Trouble with Wives is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair, written by Sada Cowan and Howard Higgin, and starring Florence Vidor, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston, Ford Sterling, Lucy Beaumont, and Edgar Kennedy. It was released on September 28, 1925, by Paramount Pictures.

Production

A key scene from The Trouble With Wives demonstrates the “extraordinary efforts” that director St. Clair went to in order to eliminate intertitles: The young wife (Florence Vidor) is led to suspect her husband (Tom Moore) of infidelities with blonde vamp (Esther Ralston). The sequence is conducted entirely in cinematic pantomime related to the wife by her husband's friend (Ford Sterling).

St. Clair, a cartoonist and graphic artist, designed and drew his own intertitles at Paramount when they were required.

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