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Three Women

192483 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

Deeply indebted Edmund courts wealthy Mabel while secretly pursuing her daughter Jeanne. Marriage to the younger woman does not end his opportunism, and a third relationship draws more people into the deception. Romantic rivalry escalates toward a killing and a trial.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
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69:30
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Ernst Lubitsch · Public domain

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Cast

DirectorsErnst Lubitsch

Inspirations

Ernst Lubitsch adapted Yolande Maree's Lillis Ehe as a drama about desire entangled with financial calculation. Pauline Frederick, May McAvoy and Marie Prevost play the three women around whom Edmund's schemes develop.

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