
The Good-Bad Wife
Drama
Overview
William Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare. After William reluctantly returns to America, Fanchon follows him, and when she is threatened with deportation because of an irregularity in her passport, William marries her. The marriage causes consternation in the upright Carter family, which is compounded when Fanchon performs one of her dances at a church benefit. At the conclusion of her dance, Fanchon sees a stranger in the audience and faints. Later, the same man appears at the Carter residence and demands to see her. Leigh Carter, William's younger brother, becomes angered and shoots the man. At the trial, Fanchon confesses that the stranger was her estranged husband whom she had been forced to marry when she was but a child. The crime thus clarified, Leigh is freed, and Fanchon, who had been expelled earlier from the Carter house, is welcomed back by her husband and his family. (Courtesy TCM)
Top Cast


Sidney Mason
Sidney Mason
William Carter
Sidney Mason
William Carter


Dorothy Green
Dorothy Green
Fanchon La Fare
Dorothy Green
Fanchon La Fare


Mathilde Brundage
Mathilde Brundage
Mrs. Carter
Mathilde Brundage
Mrs. Carter


Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett
Leigh Carter
Albert Hackett
Leigh Carter


Erville Alderson
Erville Alderson
Col. Denbigh
Erville Alderson
Col. Denbigh
Moe Lee
Moe Lee
Toy To
Moe Lee
Toy To
Leslie Stowe
Leslie Stowe
Johnson Carter
Leslie Stowe
Johnson Carter
Pauline Dempsey
Pauline Dempsey
Mirandy
Pauline Dempsey
Mirandy
Wes Jenkins
Wes Jenkins
Scipio
Wes Jenkins
Scipio
Bessie Stinson
Bessie Stinson
Bessie Stinson
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