Behold My Wife (1920)
Drama | 7 November 1920
Director:
George MelfordWriter:
Frank CondonProducer:
George MelfordProduction Company:
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.The 10 Apr 1920 Camera announced that George Melford was filming The Translation of a Savage, which was later retitled Behold My Wife.
The film had pre-release showings in New York in Oct 1920.
Paramount remade the film as Behold My Wife! in 1934, with Sylvia Sidney starring and Mitchell Leisen directing. ...
The 10 Apr 1920 Camera announced that George Melford was filming The Translation of a Savage, which was later retitled Behold My Wife.
The film had pre-release showings in New York in Oct 1920.
Paramount remade the film as Behold My Wife! in 1934, with Sylvia Sidney starring and Mitchell Leisen directing.
Frank Armour, the son of an aristocratic British family, emigrates to Canada where he receives news that his fiancée Julia Haldwell, has married another man with the blessing of the Armours. To humiliate his family, Frank marries a half-breed Indian, Lali, and sends her back to England where his crippled brother Richard befriends and educates her. As Lali becomes a lady and bears Frank a son, Frank degenerates into drunkenness. Saved by an American engineer, Frank returns to England. Ashamed of his treatment of Lali, he plans to return her to her tribe, but discovers that she is now a respected pillar of society. Frank begs Lali's forgiveness and they are ...
Frank Armour, the son of an aristocratic British family, emigrates to Canada where he receives news that his fiancée Julia Haldwell, has married another man with the blessing of the Armours. To humiliate his family, Frank marries a half-breed Indian, Lali, and sends her back to England where his crippled brother Richard befriends and educates her. As Lali becomes a lady and bears Frank a son, Frank degenerates into drunkenness. Saved by an American engineer, Frank returns to England. Ashamed of his treatment of Lali, he plans to return her to her tribe, but discovers that she is now a respected pillar of society. Frank begs Lali's forgiveness and they are reconciled.
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