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Lew Tyler's Wives
Director:
Harley Knoles
(Dir)
Release Date:
15 Jun 1926
Duration (in feet):
6,757
Duration (in reels):
7
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Cast:
Frank Mayo
(Lew Tyler)
Ruth Clifford
(Jessie Winkler)
Hedda Hopper
(Virginia Philips)
Helen Lee Worthing
(Coleen Miles)
Lew Brice
(Buzzy Mandelbush)
Robert T. Haines
(Meech Garrick)
Warren Cook
(Mr. Philips)
Summary:
Although in love with Virginia Philips, Lew Tyler refuses to be supported by his rich prospective father-in-law, causing her to break the engagement. Thus cast off by Virginia and insulted by her father, Tyler finds distraction in Jessie Winkler, an old friend; and through the efforts of Buzzy, a business partner, Lew and Jessie marry. Their marriage is unsuccessful, and Lew, haunted by the memory of Virginia, seeks forgetfulness in a liaison with Coleen Miles, a neighbor. On the night Jessie sees him with Coleen, their child dies, and Lew remorsefully dulls his sorrow by drinking. Jessie is granted a divorce, and Virginia's father, regretting his treatment of Lew, effects a reconciliation between him and Virginia, and they are married. On the night Virginia's child is born, Jessie comes to nurse her, and Lew humbly seeks a means of reparation for his failure; he agrees to finance a hospital for poor children and thereby ensures her happiness.
Production Company:
Preferred Pictures
Director:
Harley Knoles
(Dir)
Producer:
J. G. Bachmann
(Pres)
Writer:
Eugene Clifford
(Adpt)
Arthur Hoerl
(Adpt)
Photography:
William Miller
(Dir of photog)
Country:
United States
Source Text:
Based on the novel
Lew Tyler's Wives; a Novel
by Wallace Irwin (New York, 1923).
Authors:
Wallace Irwin
Copyright Claimant
Copyright Date
Copyright Number
Preferred Pictures
4/8/1926
dd/mm/yyyy
LP23000
Physical Properties:
b&w:
Si:
Genre:
Drama
Sub-Genre:
Domestic
Subjects (Major):
Courtship
Divorce
Drunkenness
Fathers-in-law
Infidelity
Marriage
Nurses
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