What Every Woman Wants (1919 film)

What Every Woman Wants

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Directed by Jesse D. Hampton
Written by William Parker (story and screenplay)
Starring Grace Darmond
Wilfred Lucas
Distributed by Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Release dates
  • February 23, 1919 (1919-02-23)
Running time
 75 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

What Every Woman Wants is a 1919 American drama film, starring Grace Darmond, Wilfred Lucas, Forrest Stanley, and Claire Du Brey, directed by Jesse D. Hampton, and based on a screenplay by William Parker. The film was released by the Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation.[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,[2] Gloria Graham (Darmond), a young woman employed at an office for a small salary, believes that the capacity of a business woman for success depends upon dressing well. After she goes into debt, she is about to be rescued by marriage to the man she loves, Philip Belden (Stanley), but World War I breaks out and he enlists. Shen then falls for a snare set by her employer Horace Lennon (Lucas), who sends her to a clothing shop with a card allowing her to buy what she wants and to charge it to his account. After news arrives that her lover is missing in action, she marries her employer to allow her to indulge in her love of luxury. Her soldier lover, released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, returns and discovers that Gloria is married. He happens to be in the vicinity of her husband's house when the husband is accidentally shot by the maid. Gloria is suspected of killing her husband and arrested, but the truth is revealed by the end of the film.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ TCM Database entry
  2. ↑ MacDonald, Margaret I. (Mar 8, 1919). "Reviews and Advertising Aids: What Every Woman Wants". Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Company. 39 (10): 1389–90. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
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