When Husbands Flirt

1925 film

November 1, 1925 (1925-11-01)

Running time

6 reelsCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

When Husbands Flirt is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Wellman released by Columbia Pictures.^[1] It stars Dorothy Revier.^[2]^[3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[4] Violet Gilbert, a young wife, accuses her husband Henry of unfaithfulness when, after he has stayed late at his office, she finds in his car a card case belonging to a woman whom she does not know. The husband is hounded for a considerable time, and then the wife learns that her husband’s partner Wilbur had borrowed his car on the night the trouble started, and that the card case belongs to the gay elder man’s escort, the blonde vamp Charlotte.

Cast

Dorothy Revier as Violet Gilbert
Forrest Stanley as Henry Gilbert
Tom Ricketts as Wilbur Belcher
Ethel Wales as Mrs. Wilbur Belcher
Maude Wayne as Charlotte Germaine
Frank Weed as Percy Snodgrass
Erwin Connelly as Joe McCormick

Preservation status

A print of When Husbands Flirt is preserved at Cinemateket Svenska Filminstitutet, Stockholm.^[5]

References

^ Frank T. Thompson (February 1, 1983). William A. Wellman. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1594-0. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
^ Progressive Silent Film List: When Husbands Flirt at silentera.com
^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: When Husbands Flirt
^ "New Pictures: When Husbands Flirt". Exhibitors Herald. 24 (2). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 67 December 26, 1925. Retrieved January 24, 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: When Husbands Flirt