''The World and His Wife'' is a

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American 1920 silent drama film produced by

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and distributed through

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. Directed by

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, the film was based on the 1908 Broadway play of the same name by Charles Frederic Nirdlinger, which was adapted from the Spanish language play ''El Gran Galeoto'' by Jose Echegaray Y Eizaguirre. The film stars

Alma Rubens Alma Rubens (born Alma Genevieve Reubens; February 19, 1897 – January 21, 1931) was an American film actress and stage performer. Rubens began her career in the mid 1910s. She quickly rose to stardom in 1916 after appearing opposite Douglas F ...

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, and Pedro de Cordoba and Broadway actress Margaret Dale in her feature film debut. The story was later filmed at MGM as '' Lovers'' (1927).

Cast

as Don Julian *

as Teodora *

Gaston Glass Gaston Glass (born Jacques Gaston Oscar Glass; December 31, 1899 – November 11, 1965) was a French-American actor and film producer. He was the father of the composer Paul Glass (born 1934). Selected filmography * ''The Corsican Broth ...

as Ernesto * Pedro de Cordoba as Don Severo * Charles K. Gerrard as Don Alvarez *Mrs. Allen Walker as Marie * Byron Russell as Captain Wickersham *Peter Barbierre as Don Julian's Friend (credited as Peter Barbier) * Pierre Gendron as Don Alvarez's Friend (credited as Leon Gendron) *Vincent Macchia as Don Alvarez's Friend *James Savold as Ernesto's Father * Margaret Dale as Mercedes *Ray Allen as Ernesto's Mother

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