Movie
The Good-Bad Wife
1920 · 70 min
A silent melodrama that sweeps you through scandal and devotion, with a dancer's charm and a courtroom's sting.
- Directed by
- Chester De Vonde, Vera McCord
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Sidney Mason, Dorothy Green, Mathilde Brundage
- Tagline
- She's a joyus tempermental lady, that at times you would like to "Shake"- but you love her withal! -Husbands, Wives, Sweethearts, other wives are all interested in her.
- Overview
- William Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare. After William reluctantly returns to America, Fanchon follows him, and when she is threatened with deportation because of an irregularity in her passport, William marries her. The marriage causes consternation in the upright Carter family, which is compounded when Fanchon performs one of her dances at a church benefit. At the conclusion of her dance, Fanchon sees a stranger in the audience and faints. Later, the same man appears at the Carter residence and demands to see her. Leigh Carter, William's younger brother, becomes angered and shoots the man. At the trial, Fanchon confesses that the stranger was her estranged husband whom she had been forced to marry when she was but a child. The crime thus clarified, Leigh is freed, and Fanchon, who had been expelled earlier from the Carter house, is welcomed back by her husband and his family. (Courtesy TCM)
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- Directed by
- Chester De Vonde, Vera McCord
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Sidney Mason, Dorothy Green, Mathilde Brundage
