For Wives Only is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Victor Heerman and starring Marie Prevost, Victor Varconi, and Charles K. Gerrard.[1]

For Wives Only
Directed byVictor Heerman
Written byAnthony Coldeway
Based onThe Critical Year
by Hans Backwitz and Rudolph Lothar
Produced byJohn C. Flinn
Starring
CinematographyHarold Rosson
Edited byF. McGrew Willis
Production
company
Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Distributed byProducers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • November 8, 1926 (1926-11-08)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

edit

Dr. Josef Rittenhaus, a well-liked physician in Vienna's upper class, is asked by his friend Waldstein to consider a proposal from Countess von Nessa to donate funds and land for a new sanitarium. Meanwhile, Rittenhaus's wife, Laura, feeling neglected, finds herself in the company of Carl Tanzer, who she rejects despite his advances. Laura attempts to incite jealousy in her husband with a fake letter, but her plan fails. Later, while evading unwanted attention from another man, she encounters Fritz Schwerman, a friend of her husband's, and agrees to have lunch with him. Meanwhile, Laura tries to impress her husband's friends at a card game, while the countess makes advances towards Rittenhaus. Disgusted by the situation, Rittenhaus returns home and reconciles happily with his wife.

Cast

edit

Preservation

edit

A print of For Wives Only is listed as being in the collection of the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique.[2]

References

edit

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.
edit