Foolish Wives (1922)




Foolish Wives




A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.


Vintage magazines

Picture Play Magazine , January 1922
Mon Ciné 161 1925
Visages et contes du cinéma 24 1938


Books with substantial mentioning of Foolish Wives

National Film Theatre
Fifty famous films, 1915-1945
[London], [[between 1945 and 1960]

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Nora Henry
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder
Wetport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Richard Koszarski
Von, The Life and Films of Erich von Stroheim
New York, 2001

Arthur Lennig
Stroheim
Lexington, Kentucky, 2000

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Robert K. Klepper
Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999

Herman G. Weinberg
Stroheim, A Pictorial Record of His Nine Films
New York, 1975

Books with an entry on Foolish Wives

Robert B. Connelly
The Motion Picture Guide, Silent Film 1910-1936
Chicago, 1986

Articles on Foolish Wives

Richard Koszarski, Foolish Wives: The colour restoration that never happened, in: Film History, vol. 12, 2000 pp. 341-343