Should a Wife Work?
Cast & Crew
Horace G. Plimpton
Edith Stockton
Alice Lowe
Stuart Robson
Louis Kimball
Elinor Curtis
Film Details
Synopsis
Two school classmates pursue different paths: Betty teaches music, while Nina marries a lawyer, Ed Barnes. Tiring of domestic life, however, Nina seeks a career on the stage. Meanwhile, Paget, a wealthy and unscrupulous man, seeks to compromise Betty, and later, when she marries David Locke, she discovers that her husband's income depends on royalties from an invention that Paget controls. Paget again forces himself on Betty, after which he reduces the royalty, and Betty secretly gets a position as a singer. Paget and David come to blows and David's new invention is destroyed, but he makes a new start at another job. Seeking to reconcile Nina with her husband, Betty innocently provokes David's jealousy; however, Ed, overjoyed at the reunion with his wife, tells David that he owes his marital success to Betty's efforts.
Director
Horace G. Plimpton
Cast
Edith Stockton
Alice Lowe
Stuart Robson
Louis Kimball
Elinor Curtis
Walter Mcewen
Harry Mowbray
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
Hallmark announced the film's release in five reels in July 1920, but it is unclear whether the film was in fact released at that time, as it was not reviewed then, and as a news item from September 1920 noted that its distribution was "temporarily disarranged." J. W. Film Corp. copyrighted the picture in 1921 and released it in seven reels onto the state rights market in late 1921 or early 1922. It is listed in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30 (F2.5018), which credits Zellner as scenarist as well as story writer.
