The Foolish Matrons

{{short description|1921 film by Maurice Tourneur}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Foolish Matrons

| image = The Foolish Matrons (1921) - 1.jpg

| caption = Advertisement

| director = Maurice Tourneur

| producer = Maurice Tourneur

| writer = Wyndham Gittens

| based_on = {{basedon|The Foolish Matrons|Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne}}[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FoolishMatrons1921.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Foolish Matrons] at silentera.com

| narrator =

| starring = Hobart Bosworth
Doris May
Mildred Manning

| music =

| editing =

| cinematography = Kenneth Gordon MacLean
Charles Van Enger

| studio = Maurice Tourneur Productions

| distributor = Associated Producers

| released = {{Film date|1921|06|19|USA}}

| runtime = 7 reels

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

The Foolish Matrons is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur and starring Hobart Bosworth, Doris May, and Mildred Manning.Waldman p. 172 It is also known by the alternative title of Is Marriage a Failure?.

Preserved in the George Eastman House collection.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1118/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Foolish Matrons]