What Every Woman Learns (1919)
Drama | 9 November 1919
Director:
Fred NibloWriter:
Eugene B. LewisEditor:
Duncan MansfieldProduction Designer:
C. Tracy HoagProduction Company:
Thomas H. Ince ProductionsA pre-release trade article states that the film is based on the novel The Gay Miss Fortesque by Eugene B. Lewis. No evidence of the existence of such a novel, however, has been discovered. ...
A pre-release trade article states that the film is based on the novel The Gay Miss Fortesque by Eugene B. Lewis. No evidence of the existence of such a novel, however, has been discovered.
Because Amy Fortesque's dying grandfather advises her to get all the joys out of life, she marries Dick Gaylord because he is funny, rather than Walter Melrose, a staid young lawyer who loves her. Gaylord turns out to be a heavy drinker who treats his wife poorly. He tricks Melrose into a meeting in Amy's room, and in a drunken state, shoots him. Amy seizes the gun and kills Gaylord, but she eventually is found innocent of the crime and seeks happiness with ...
Because Amy Fortesque's dying grandfather advises her to get all the joys out of life, she marries Dick Gaylord because he is funny, rather than Walter Melrose, a staid young lawyer who loves her. Gaylord turns out to be a heavy drinker who treats his wife poorly. He tricks Melrose into a meeting in Amy's room, and in a drunken state, shoots him. Amy seizes the gun and kills Gaylord, but she eventually is found innocent of the crime and seeks happiness with Melrose.
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