Name: Josselyn's Wife
Released: 1919
Cast: Bessie Barriscale, Nigel Barrie, Kathleen Kirkham, Joseph Dowling, Ben Alexander

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

May 5, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

B. B. Features, Inc.

Distribution Company

Robertson-Cole Co. through Exhibitors Mutual Distributing Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel Josselyn's Wife by Kathleen Norris (New York, 1918).

Synopsis

Ellen Latimer meets artist Gibbs Josselyn at a party where she is snubbed. After they fall in love and marry, they move to Europe, where Gibbs finishes his art studies, because he resents the young, frivolous wife of his father Thomas, an architect. Five years later, after Gibbs has made a name for himself, they return, responding to Thomas' plea to see his grandson Tommy. At their Long Island home, Thomas and Tommy become fast friends, while Gibbs falls prey to his flirting stepmother Lillian, to Ellen's dismay. When Ellen and Thomas find Lillian in a negligee at Gibb's studio one morning after Gibbs supposedly was working and Lillian visiting a friend, Gibbs, innocent of any wrong-doing, leaves after quarreling with Thomas and threatening to kill him. The next day, when Thomas is found dead, Gibbs is imprisoned. After Tommy calmly confesses to shooting Thomas while playing soldier, Gibbs is released and reunited with the faithful Ellen.