The Other Woman's Story

1925 Drama 65 minutes Directed by B.F. Stanley

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About The Other Woman's Story

Mrs. Colby sues her husband Colman Colby for divorce and names his business partner, Jean Prentiss, as co-respondent. The lawyer on the case, Robert Marshall, is murdered. At trial, witnesses say Marshall looked toward the door behind him the night he died, and the jury finds Colby guilty. While they are out, Jean remembers a face at the funeral window, matches it in a rogues' gallery to Gertie Van, and brings evidence that Mrs. Colby killed Marshall in a jealous rage. Mrs. Colby is arrested. Colby and Jean stay together.

Cast & crew

More about The Other Woman's Story

B.F. Stanley directed. Peggy Gaddis wrote the story and John F. Goodrich the scenario. B.P. Schulberg produced. Preferred Pictures released the six-reeler in the United States on November 15, 1925. A British release planned for Vitagraph went out through Warner Bros. after Warner bought that company. Allen G. Siegler and Gilbert Warrenton photographed it.

Themes

  • A divorce names the wrong woman
  • A guilty verdict while the jury is still the story
  • The wife, not the husband, held the knife
  • divorce
  • co-respondent
  • murder trial
  • rogues' gallery
  • jealousy
  • Jean Prentiss

Making

The 2018 restoration used an incomplete tinted nitrate print from the AFI/Atkinson Collection and a six-reel black-and-white duplicate negative from the AFI/Donald Nichol Collection, both at the Library of Congress Packard Campus. Tint colors were checked against a Dutch export print at the EYE Filmmuseum.

Look

Allen G. Siegler and Gilbert Warrenton shot the trial so that each witness's testimony cuts to the night of the murder, including the moment Marshall looks at the door behind him.

Preservation

The Library of Congress and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival completed a tinted restoration in May 2018 from two Packard Campus prints, using an EYE Filmmuseum export print to confirm the colors.

Notes

  • Alice Calhoun plays Mrs. Colby, Robert Frazer plays Colman Colby, Helen Lee Worthing plays Jean Prentiss, and Mahlon Hamilton plays Robert Marshall.
  • David Torrence is the judge. Gertrude Short plays Gertie Van. Riza Royce plays a maid.
  • Exhibitor's Trade Review printed a synopsis on October 31, 1925, two weeks before the U.S. release.
  • The San Francisco Silent Film Festival and the Library of Congress finished a restoration in May 2018.

Scenes

  • Witnesses agree that the dying Marshall looked at the door behind him.
  • The jury returns a guilty verdict against Colby.
  • Jean matches a face from the funeral to Gertie Van in the rogues' gallery.

Also available

  • Library of Congress Packard Campus (2018 restoration with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival)