Behold My Wife! (1920 film)

Behold My Wife! is a lost[1] 1920 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and starring Mabel Julienne Scott and Milton Sills in a filmization of Sir Gilbert Parker's novel, The Translation of a Savage. Famous Players-Lasky produced the film and Paramount Pictures distributed.[2][3]

Behold My Wife!
Lobby poster
Directed byGeorge Melford
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Jesse Lasky
Written byFrank Condon (scenario)
Based onThe Translation of a Savage
by Sir Gilbert Parker
StarringMabel Julienne Scott
Milton Sills
CinematographyPaul P. Perry
Production
company
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 10, 1920 (1920-10-10)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Mabel Julienne Scott and Elliott Dexter
Milton Sills and Mabel Julienne Scott

In 1934, the story was filmed again by Paramount as Behold My Wife, directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond.

Plot

As described in a film magazine,[4] Frank Armour (Sills), scion of British aristocracy and of the Hudson's Bay Company, hears from his former sweetheart of her marriage to a rival. In revenge and to ridicule his family, he marries an Indian princess Lali (Scott). Sending her to his family home in England, he then plunges into the Canadian wilderness and into a life of dissolution. Through the kindness of the Armour family and especially through the patience and perseverance of Frank's brother Richard (Dexter), Lili is transformed into a beautiful and charming society woman. Lali's happiness receives a blow when Frank's former sweetheart tells her the reason that he had married her. Lali's loyalty and love for Frank remain steadfast through the years until his redemption and return to the family home to find their boy.

Cast

References
  1. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Behold My Wife!
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: Behold My Wife! at silentera.com
  3. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Behold My Wife!
  4. "Reviews: Behold My Wife". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 11 (17): 87. October 23, 1920.
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