The Good-Bad Wife (1920): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 1920, The Good-Bad Wife is a notable film directed by Chester De Vonde.

What it’s about. William Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare. After William reluctantly returns to America, Fanchon follows him, and when she is threatened with deportation because of an irregularity in her passport, William marries her. The marriage causes consternation in the upright Carter family, which is compounded when Fanchon performs one of her dances at a church benefit. At the conclusion of her dance, Fanchon sees a stranger in the audience and faints. Later, the same man appears at the Carter residence and demands to see her. Leigh Carter, William's younger brother, becomes angered and shoots the man. At the trial, Fanchon confesses that the stranger was her estranged husband whom she had been forced to marry when she was but a child. The crime thus clarified, Leigh is freed, and Fanchon, who had been expelled earlier from the Carter house, is welcomed back by her husband and his family. (Courtesy TCM)

Who’s in it. The Good-Bad Wife stars Sidney Mason as William Carter, Dorothy Green as Fanchon La Fare, Moe Lee as Toy To and Leslie Stowe as Johnson Carter, among others.

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