Meet the Wife is a 1931 American comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce and starring Laura La Plante, Lew Cody and Joan Marsh.Walker p.575 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
References
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.
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