Man and Wife

Man and Wife

50 mins | Drama | March 25, 1923

Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon. Supposedly she dies in a fire, and some time later Fleming takes a vacation in the country, where by some odd coincidence he winds up meeting Dolly, Dora's sister. Without realizing her relationship to Dora, he marries her. Soon Dolly is expecting, and not long after, Dora pops up -- she survived the fire, but has been left hopelessly insane.

Man and Wife

50 mins | Drama | March 25, 1923

Man and Wife
Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon. Supposedly she dies in a fire, and some time later Fleming takes a vacation in the country, where by some odd coincidence he winds up meeting Dolly, Dora's sister. Without realizing her relationship to Dora, he marries her. Soon Dolly is expecting, and not long after, Dora pops up -- she survived the fire, but has been left hopelessly insane.
Producers Effanem Productions
Original title Man and Wife
Directors John L. McCutcheon
Writers Leota Morgan

Cast

Norma Shearer

as Dora Perkins

Maurice Costello

as Caleb Perkins

Gladys Leslie

as Dolly Perkins

Edna May Spooner

as Mrs. Perkins

Robert Elliott

as Dr. Howard Fleming

Ernest Hilliard

as Walter Powell