The World and His Wife (1920)

Directed by

Robert G. Vignola

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama based on a Broadway play about a woman whose reputation is ruined by gossip. It follows her struggle to clear her name and find happiness.

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What happens

The World and His Wife is a lost American 1920 silent drama film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Directed by Robert G. Vignola, the film was based on the 1908 Broadway play of the same name by Charles Frederic Nirdlinger, which was adapted from the Spanish language play El Gran Galeoto by José Echegaray y Eizaguirre. The film stars Alma Rubens, Montagu Love, and Pedro de Cordoba and Broadway actress Margaret Dale in her feature film debut. The story was later filmed at MGM as Lovers (1927). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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