My American Wife

My American Wife (1922)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1922-12-31
  • Runtime: 1h 0min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
  • Production Country: Argentina, United States of America
  • Director: Sam Wood

Summary

Manuel La Tessa, son of a wealthy South American family, meets Natalie Chester, a young Kentucky woman whose horse has won a race at a South American track. Manuel gives a party in her honor, where she is insulted by one of the guests. Manuel knocks down the offender. The offender, whose father is a powerful figure in the country's politics, challenges Manuel to a duel, but also hires a man to hide in ambush and kill his opponent. Manuel is only wounded and Natalie nurses him back to health. Natalie loves Manuel and seeks to uncover the mystery of the bullet fired at him during the duel. A lost film.

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  • Gloria Swanson

    as Natalie Chester
  • Antonio Moreno

    as Manuel La Tessa
  • Josef Swickard

    as Don Fernando DeContas
  • Eric Mayne

    as Carlos DeGrossa
  • Gino Corrado

    as Pedro DeGrossa
  • Edythe Chapman

    as Donna Isabella LaTassa
  • Aileen Pringle

    as Hortensia deVereta
  • Walter Long

    as Gomez
  • Frank Butler

    as Horace Beresford (as F.R. Butler)
  • Jacques D'Auray

    as Gaston Navarre
  • Loyal Underwood

    as Danny O'Hare
  • Mary Land

    as Maid
  • Mervyn LeRoy

    as Extra
Writing Hector Turnbull Story
Writing Monte M. Katterjohn Writer
Directing Sam Wood Director
Camera Alfred Gilks Director of Photography

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