Lonely Wives
About Lonely Wives
By day Richard Smith is a respectable lawyer. At night he goes to clubs and chases women, and his mother-in-law tries to hold him in. An actor who can impersonate him comes to the office. The two men trade lives.
Cast & crew
More about Lonely Wives
Russell Mack directed. E. B. Derr produced it for Pathé. RKO released it after the studios merged, on February 22, 1931. Walter DeLeon wrote the script from a German vaudeville act, Tanzanwalt, by Pordes Milo, Walter Schütt, and Eric Urban, which DeLeon and Mark Swan had translated for the American stage. Edward Snyder photographed it. Joseph Kane edited it. Wikidata gives 85 minutes. Edward Everett Horton plays both the lawyer and the impersonator. Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante, Patsy Ruth Miller, and Maude Eburne are billed. A copy is on the Internet Archive as Lonely_Wives_1931.
Themes
Making
Mack built the farce on Horton playing both sides of the switch.
Look
Edward Snyder shot the office and the nightclub half of Horton's double role.
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Horton's double role is the lawyer and the actor who looks like him.
- The German source is a vaudeville act, not a novel.
- Spencer Charters is billed.
- The Pathé picture went out under the RKO name.
Scenes
- The impersonator walks into the law office.
- The two men exchange the day life and the night life.
Influenced by
- The German vaudeville act Tanzanwalt
Also available
- Internet Archive (Lonely_Wives_1931)