Watch Your Wife
{{short description|1926 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Watch Your Wife
| image = Watch Your Wife.jpg
| caption =
| director = Svend Gade
| producer = Victor Noerdlinger
| writer = {{ubl|Svend Gade|Charles E. Whittaker}}
| based_on = {{basedon|"Watch Your Wife"|Gösta Segercrantz}}
| starring = {{ubl|Virginia Valli|Pat O'Malley|Nat Carr}}
| music =
| editing =
| cinematography = Arthur L. Todd
| studio = Universal Pictures
| distributor = Universal Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1926|04|04}}
| runtime = 72 minutes
| country = United States
| language = {{ubl|Silent|English intertitles}}
| budget =
| gross =
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Watch Your Wife is a 1926 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Svend Gade and starring Virginia Valli, Pat O'Malley, and Nat Carr.Langman p. 264[https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/W/WatchYourWife1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: Watch Your Wife] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |last=Pardy |first=George T. |author-link= |title=Pre-Release Review of Features: Partners Again |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=33 |issue=9 |pages=1011 |date=27 February 1926 |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City, New York |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpic33moti/page/n1022/mode/1up |access-date=24 March 2023}} {{Source-attribution}} James Langham and his wife Claudia are divorced, and Count Alphonse Marsac woos Claudia. James hires Gladys Moon from an agency that advertises "wives for rent," but really provides housekeepers for hire, with working hours being from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. A storm forces Gladys to remain overnight at the James house. Claudia, repenting of the minor squabbles that caused their divorce, shows up the next morning, but flees at the sight of Gladys. James follows her and gets her off a train on which she was about to leave with Marsac. The couple become reconciled.
Cast
- Virginia Valli as Claudia Langham
- Pat O'Malley as James Langham
- Nat Carr as Benjamin Harris
- Helen Lee Worthing as Gladys Moon
- Albert Conti as Alphonse Marsac
- Aggie Herring as Madame Buff
- Nora Hayden as Maid
- Gary Cooper as Extra
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- Langman, Larry. Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. McFarland, 2000.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0017530}}
Category:1926 comedy-drama films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Svend Gade
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Silent American comedy-drama films
Category:English-language comedy-drama films
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