Movie
Foolish Wives
Overview
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
Details
- Release date
- 1922-01-11
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Erich von Stroheim as Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin
- Rudolph Christians as Andrew J. Hughes
- Miss DuPont as Helen Hughes
- Maude George as Princess Olga Petchnikoff
- Mae Busch as Princess Vera Petchnikoff
- Dale Fuller as Maruschka
- Cesare Gravina as Cesare Ventucci
- Malvina Polo as Marietta
- Albert Edmondson as Pavel Pavlich
- Mary Philbin as Crippled Girl (uncredited)
- Nigel De Brulier as Monk (uncredited)
- C.J. Allen as Albert I
Crew
- Erich von Stroheim - Director
- Erich von Stroheim - Writer
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