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My Official Wife (1926)

My Official Wife poster
Directed by
Paul L. Stein
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 14m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man poses as a married couple with a woman during World War I. They navigate danger and romantic tension while hiding their true identities.

romanticdramaticwartimesuspensefuldatedclassicsilent-era

What happens

My Official Wife is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film by Austrian director Paul L. Stein, and his first American film. It stars Irene Rich and Conway Tearle. It is an adaptation of the 1891 novel My Official Wife by Richard Henry Savage (which had been filmed once before in 1914 by the Vitagraph Company of America with Clara Kimball Young as the lead), but the storyline was updated to include World War I. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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