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Second Wife is a american film of genre Drama directed by Russell Mack released in USA on 9 february 1930 with Conrad Nagel

Second Wife (1930)

Second Wife
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Released in USA 9 february 1930
Length 1h4
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating51% 2.581462.581462.581462.581462.58146

Second Wife is a 1930 American drama film produced and released by RKO Pictures. It was directed by Russell Mack, written by Hugh Herbert and Bert Glennon, based on the play All the King's Men by Fulton Oursler. This film stars Conrad Nagel and Lila Lee, two silent film veterans moving into talkies.

A print of this film is held by the Library of Congress.

Synopsis

Not long after the death of his first wife, Walter Fairchild becomes engaged to Florence Wendell. Florence ignores the warnings of Gilbert Gaylord, who is also interested in marrying her, that she doesn't know what she is getting herself into; that no woman will ever be able to fill the void in Fairchild's life left by the death of his wife. After they are married, Fairchild and Florence have some contention as she buys into the warnings given her by Gaylord. To appease her, they move out of the house he shared with his first wife, and allows her to furnish the new home. Sensing that he and his new wife need some time alone together to start their new lives, he sends his seven-year-old son, Walter Jr., to a boarding school in Switzerland. After Florence becomes pregnant, Fairchild is notified that is son is very ill, and will most likely not recover. Despite Florence's pleas for him not to leave her, he travels to his son's side. As he leaves, Florence tells him not to return.

Actors

Conrad Nagel

(Walter Fairchild)Lila Lee

(Florence Wendell Fairchild)Mary Carr

(Mrs. Rhodes - Housekeeper)
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