Max Wants a Divorce
About Max Wants a Divorce
Max has to choose between his new wife and a fortune. He tries to give her grounds for a divorce, take the money, and marry her again. He works hard to supply the evidence. A lawyer's mistake is the catch: the money and the wife were both already his.
Cast & crew
More about Max Wants a Divorce
Max Linder wrote and directed it and plays Max. Martha Mansfield plays the wife. Helen Ferguson and Ernest Maupain are billed. Essanay released this American short in 1917. A copy is on the Internet Archive as MaxLinderInMaxWantsADivorce1917.
Themes
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The scheme is a divorce he plans to undo.
- The lawyer, not the wife, wrecks the plan.
- Linder made it in the United States, at Essanay.
- The archive title uses his name in the identifier.
Scenes
- Max stages the evidence his wife is supposed to use.
- He learns the money was never conditional.
Also available
- Internet Archive (MaxLinderInMaxWantsADivorce1917)
