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Concentrated on the high production costs and director von Stroheim's extensive involvement, noting impressive sets but also its 'frankly salacious' nature.
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
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Despite high production costs and underperforming financially in its initial run, Foolish Wives was later selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, with early critical reception noting its extravagance and controversial salacious themes.
The Cast
Erich von Stroheim
Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin
Rudolph Christians
Andrew J. Hughes
Miss DuPont
Helen Hughes
Maude George
Princess Olga Petchnikoff
Mae Busch
Princess Vera Petchnikoff
Dale Fuller
Maruschka
Cesare Gravina
Cesare Ventucci
MP
Malvina Polo
Marietta
AE
Albert Edmondson
Pavel Pavlich
Mary Philbin
Crippled Girl (uncredited)
Trivia
In 2008, Foolish Wives was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Universal built enormous facade-facsimiles of the French Riviera's most exclusive casino and entertainment complex, and a separate set was constructed on the Monterey Peninsula.
During editing, Universal became alarmed that the film's romantic intrigue and lurid sexual overtones threatened to link it to the Fatty Arbuckle sexual indiscretions scandal.
To meet the 11 January 1922 premiere deadline, a special train carriage with cutting apparatus was provided for editors to complete the cutting en route from Hollywood to New York.
In 1936, the Museum of Modern Art obtained a copy of the 1928 re-cut, believing it was the 1922 general release version, and presented it as such to museum audiences.
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