Restless Wives is a 1924

1924 in film

-Events:* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

 silent melodrama, directed by Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava was an American film director best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door....

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Plot

Polly, is a wealthy wife neglected by her husband James Benson. When a business engagement causes James to miss their wedding anniversary, Polly goes with admirer Curtis Wilbur to a cabaret, and later she decides to go live with her father. James, who is desperate for reconciliation, kidnaps Polly while she's with Wilbur and takes her to his lodge in the mountains. James is shot by a drunken servant and when he falls, he knocks over a lamp and sets the place on fire. Polly drags him out of the lodge to safety, and the couple is reunited.

Cast

• Doris Kenyon
  Doris Kenyon
  Doris Kenyon was a popular actress of motion pictures and television.-Youth:She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her family had a home at 1805 Harrison Street. Her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist Episcopal Church minister at University Church. Kenyon studied at Packer College...
  
  
• James Rennie
  James Rennie
  James Rennie FRS was a Scottish naturalist.-Life:In 1815 he graduated M.A. from Glasgow University where he had previously studied natural sciences, and took holy orders. In 1821 he moved to London. From 1830 to 1834 he was professor of natural history and zoology at King's College. From then on...
  
  
• Montagu Love
  Montagu Love
  Montagu Love , also known as Montague Love, was an English screen, stage and vaudeville actor.Born Harry Montague Love in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and educated in Great Britain, Love began his career as an artist and military correspondent. His first important job was as a London newspaper...
  
  
• Edmund Breese
  Edmund Breese
  Edmund Breese was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo , The Lion and the Mouse with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree with Helen Ware, The...
  
  
• Burr McIntosh
  Burr McIntosh
  William Burr McIntosh had an eclectic career. He was known, at different points in his life, to be a lecturer, photographer, movie studio owner, silent film actor, author, publisher of Burr McIntosh Monthly, reporter and a pioneer in the early movie and radio business.-Life and career:He was born...
  
  
• Coit Albertson
  Coit Albertson
  Coit Albertson was an American silent film actor.-Biography:Edward Coit Albertson was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the son of George and Elizabeth Albertson, and began his acting career on Broadway, where, among other productions, he played in Stubborn Cinderella...
  
  
• Naomi Childers
  Naomi Childers
  Naomi Childers was a silent film actress whose career lasted until the mid-20th century.-English ancestry, child actress:...
  
  
• Maud Sinclair
• Edna May Oliver
  Edna May Oliver
  Edna May Oliver was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters.-Early life:...
  
  
• De Sacia Mooers
  De Sacia Mooers
  De Sacia Mooers was a movie actress, disputably from Los Angeles, California.-Disputed Origins:Newspaper accounts of the era differ as to her birthplace. At the time, it was common for the various studios to exaggerate or fabricate an actor's biography to make them seem more exotic and interesting...