
The Prairie Wife
Western
Overview
While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan MacKail, who is equally broke though he owns grainland in the West. Duncan and Chaddie are married and go west to homestead. Duncan hires Ollie, a Swedish caretaker, who frightens Chaddie. When business takes Duncan away, Chaddie goes to take care of Percy Woodhouse, an Englishman who has become ill at his place fifteen miles away. Her horse runs away, and she is forced to spend the night there. She sleeps under a wagon, but Duncan is nevertheless angry and jealous.
Top Cast


Dorothy Devore
Dorothy Devore
Chaddie Green
Dorothy Devore
Chaddie Green


Herbert Rawlinson
Herbert Rawlinson
Duncan MacKail
Herbert Rawlinson
Duncan MacKail


Gibson Gowland
Gibson Gowland
Ollie
Gibson Gowland
Ollie


Leslie Stuart
Leslie Stuart
Percy
Leslie Stuart
Percy
Frances Primm
Frances Primm
Olga (as Frances Prim)
Frances Primm
Olga (as Frances Prim)


Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff
Diego
Boris Karloff
Diego
Erich von Ritzau
Erich von Ritzau
Doctor
Erich von Ritzau
Doctor
Rupert Franklin
Rupert Franklin
Rufus Green
Rupert Franklin
Rufus Green


Alphonse Martell
Alphonse Martell
Count de Chateaunois (uncredited)
Alphonse Martell
Count de Chateaunois (uncredited)
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