''The Other Woman's Story'' is a 1925 American silent

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directed by B.F. Stanley and starring

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Robert Frazer Robert Frazer (born Robert William Browne, June 29, 1891 – August 17, 1944) was an American actor who appeared in some 224 shorts and films from the 1910s until his death. He began in films with the Eclair company which released through Unive ...

, and

Helen Lee Worthing Helen Lee Worthing (1905 - 1948) was an American actress, mostly active in the era of silent film. Early years The daughter of a prominent businessman in Boston, Worthing was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. As a teenager, she received a prize ...

. In America it was distributed by the

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outfit

Preferred Pictures Preferred Pictures was an American film production company of the silent era. Founded in 1920 by the producer B. P. Schulberg following his departure from Paramount Pictures, it was an independent, either distributing its own films or rele ...

while its British release was originally to be handled by

Vitagraph Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907 ...

, before that company was acquired by

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who distributed it on the British market.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Mrs. Colby, a woman seeking a divorce and naming her husband's female business partner Jean Prentiss as a

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, retains an attorney who, before his work is finished, is murdered. Suspicion points to the husband. The woman named as the co-respondent uncovers evidence that proves the wife guilty of the murder, killing Robert Marshall in a jealous rage. With this evidence, Jean reverses the verdict of guilty brought against her new husband.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1925 films 1925 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Preferred Pictures films 1920s American films English-language drama films {{1920s-US-film-stub