Pretty Mrs. Smith
Cast & Crew
Hobart Bosworth
Fritzi Scheff
Louis Bennison
Forrest Stanley
Owen Moore
Leila Bliss
Film Details
Synopsis
To escape her dreary home life, Drucilla marries Ferdinand Smith, a missionary, and accompanies him to Africa. Frustrated with her husband's coldness and his cannibalistic converts, she returns to America. After Drucilla learns that Ferdinand has drowned, she marries the poet Forrest Smith, but soon tires of life in a cottage with an alcoholic husband. When she threatens to sue for non-support, he disappears. A note pinned to his clothes found at the seashore suggests suicide. Drucilla next marries Frank Smith, a wealthy athletic clubman, but his jealousy causes their separation. At a seaside resort, Forrest, alive, finds Drucilla. When she remarks that she is a bigamist, Ferdinand appears from hiding and corrects her, saying that she is a "trigamist." After the madly jealous Frank chases them through the hotel, Ferdinand, seeing that Drucilla really loves Frank, says that because seven years have passed since his disappearance, he is now legally dead, and since Forrest married her during the seven years, Frank is her only legal husband.
Director
Hobart Bosworth
Cast
Fritzi Scheff
Louis Bennison
Forrest Stanley
Owen Moore
Leila Bliss
Film Details
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to the copyright entry, the film's title is The Pretty Mrs. Smith. This was the first release of the Oliver Morosco Photoplay Co. It was the first film of Fritzi Scheff, who starred in the Broadway production, Louis Bennison and Forrest Stanley. Leila Bliss also was in the play. Scenes in the film were shot in San Diego, Long Beach and the Hotel Alexandria in Los Angeles. According to the 1916 MPSD, Dal Clawson was the cameraman. Items in the Paramount studio records dating from the thirties and forties state that Elmer Harris wrote the film's script.
