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Yesterday's Wife

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Yesterday's Wife
Directed byEdward LeSaint
Written byEvelyn Campbell
Produced byHarry Cohn
StarringIrene Rich
Eileen Percy
Lottie Williams
CinematographyKing D. Gray
Production
company
Distributed byCBC Film Sales Corporation
Release date
  • August 15, 1923 (1923-08-15)
Running time
56 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Yesterday's Wife is a lost[1] 1923 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Irene Rich, Eileen Percy, and Lottie Williams. The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation, which would later become Columbia Pictures.[2][3]

Plot

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As described in a film magazine review,[4] following a mutual misunderstanding, a divorce decree parts Gilbert and Megan Armes. She becomes a companion to an old lady while Gilbert weds Viola, who is frivolous and a flirt. Megan and her former husband meet years later at a fashionable resort and find that they are still in love with each other. Viola is drowned in a boating accident. Megan and Gilbert re-marry.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Yesterday's Wife [motion picture]". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
  2. ^ Munden p. 931
  3. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Yesterday's Wife (Wayback)
  4. ^ Pardy, George T. (February 9, 1924). "Box Office Reviews: Yesterday's Wife". Exhibitors Trade Review. 15 (12). New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 28. Retrieved August 12, 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Bibliography

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  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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