Yesterday's Wife

Yesterday's Wife
Yesterday's Wife
Directed by	Edward LeSaint
Written by	Evelyn Campbell
Produced by	Harry Cohn
Starring	Irene Rich ; Eileen Percy ; Lottie Williams
Cinematography	King D. Gray
Production; company	CBC Film Sales Corporation
Distributed by	CBC Film Sales Corporation
Release date	August 15, 1923;
Running time	56 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Last updated October 10, 2025

Yesterday's Wife is a lost ^[1] 1923 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Irene Rich, Eileen Percy, and Lottie Williams. The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation, which would later become Columbia Pictures.^[2]^[3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[4] following a mutual misunderstanding, a divorce decree parts Gilbert and Megan Armes. She becomes a companion to an old lady while Gilbert weds Viola, who is frivolous and a flirt. Megan and her former husband meet years later at a fashionable resort and find that they are still in love with each other. Viola is drowned in a boating accident. Megan and Gilbert remarry.

Cast

Irene Rich as Megan Daye
Eileen Percy as Viola Armes
Lottie Williams as Sophia
Josephine Crowell as Mrs. Harbours
Lewis Dayton as Gilbert Armes
Philo McCullough as Victor Fleming
William Scott as Jeo Coombs

References

↑ "Yesterday's Wife [motion picture]". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
↑ Munden p. 931
↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Yesterday's Wife (Wayback)
↑ Pardy, George T. (February 9, 1924). "Box Office Reviews: Yesterday's Wife". Exhibitors Trade Review. 15 (12). New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 28. Retrieved August 12, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

Bibliography

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

Yesterday's Wife at IMDb
lobby poster(archived)

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[1] "Yesterday's Wife [motion picture]". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved September 27, 2023.

[2] Munden p. 931

[3] The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Yesterday's Wife (Wayback)

[4] Pardy, George T. (February 9, 1924). "Box Office Reviews: Yesterday's Wife". Exhibitors Trade Review. 15 (12). New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 28. Retrieved August 12, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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