Meet the Wife (film) explained

Meet the Wife is a 1931 American comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce and starring Laura La Plante, Lew Cody and Joan Marsh.^[1] It is based on the 1923 Broadway play of the same title by Lynn Starling. The film's sets were designed by the art director Charles A. Cadwallader.

Plot

A woman's supposedly dead first husband turns up, much to the consternation of her second husband. Meanwhile, her younger sister attempts to carry on two romances with a newspaper reporter and a wealthy Englishman.

Cast

• Laura La Plante as Gertrude Lennox
• Lew Cody as Philip Lord
• Joan Marsh as Doris Bellamy
• William Janney as Gregory Brown
• Harry Myers as Harvey Lennox
• Claud Allister as Victor Staunton
• Aileen Carlyle as Alice
• Aggie Herring as Maggie
• Edgar Norton as Williams

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
• Walker, Brent E. Mack Sennett’s Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel. McFarland, 2013.

Notes and References

1. Walker p.575