"A Drama of Men and Their Wives!"
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
Social & External
The people behind it
Adolphe Menjou
Tony
Leila Hyams
Connie
Norman Foster
Jack
Mary Duncan
Helen
Hedda Hopper
Callie
Robert Emmett Keane
Joe
Harry Northrup
Brandt
Cosmo Kyrle Bellew
Henry Brooks (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Brooks' Butler (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
Sam Ellery (uncredited)
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A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
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A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live a refined life in Europe, surrounded by art. Maggie marries impoverished Italian Prince Amerigo, while Adam marries Maggie's friend Charlotte Stant. The Prince and Charlotte are having an affair, which Maggie discovers and navigates through a silent, psychological battle of wills, ultimately using her cunning to preserve her marriage and protect her father.
Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and Joanna encounters the other great love of her life, each is thrust into an evening of temptation.
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A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
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A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
