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Foolish Wives is a american film of genre Drama directed by Erich von Stroheim released in USA on 11 january 1922 with Maude George
Foolish Wives (1922)
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Add to a movie listFoolish Wives is a 1922 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures under their Super-Jewel banner and written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. Although uncredited, Irving Thalberg, aged 22, was in charge of production. Thalberg would later become one of the most famous studio heads of all time. The drama features von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George, and others.
When released in 1922, the film was the most expensive film made at that time, and billed by Universal Studios as the "first million-dollar movie" to come out of Hollywood. Originally, von Stroheim intended the film to run anywhere between 6 and 10 hours, and be shown over two evenings, but Universal executives opposed this idea. The studio bosses cut the film drastically before the release date.
In 2008, Foolish Wives was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Synopsis
The silent drama tells the story of a man who names himself Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin (von Stroheim) in order to seduce rich women and extort money from them.Actors
Maude George
(Princess Olga Petchnikoff)
Mae Busch
(Princess Vera Petchnikoff)
Erich von Stroheim
(Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin)
Dale Fuller
(Maruschka)
Miss DuPont
(Helen Hughes)
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