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Wife (1914)
Short | Drama, Short

Wife (1914)

Short | Drama, Short

Financial ruin stare Price and Holliday in the face. Holliday finds that his beautiful daughter, Leonora, has just become betrothed to Dr. Livingston, a young physician. The next day, Price, who is enormously wealthy in his own right, ...See moreFinancial ruin stare Price and Holliday in the face. Holliday finds that his beautiful daughter, Leonora, has just become betrothed to Dr. Livingston, a young physician. The next day, Price, who is enormously wealthy in his own right, offers to save Holliday from disgrace and ruin with the condition that he receive Leonora's hand in marriage. Leonora sacrifices herself. Livingston is wild with rage and disappointment. Months later Livingston receives a note from Price asking him to spend a week with them. He is met with frankness and pleasure by Mr. Price, but when Leonora hears his voice she goes white. She tells him he must leave at once. The sister, Alice, takes this message to him and he replies that he will go, but it will he like a thief in the night, and that Leonora herself must come to his room at midnight and give him the order. At midnight the troubled Leonora comes to Livingston's room and pleads with him to leave. Their voices attract the attention of Price, who is just in time to see his wife recoil from the doctor's arms. At his entrance she swoons. After the girl has been placed on the bed, Price draws a gun and is about to kill the visitor when Mrs. Price awakens. The Prices return to New York, but the husband is a changed man. He has become addicted to cocaine. Leonora summons Doctor Livingston, saying that his act has caused the terrible condition of her husband. Livingston writes a prescription and gives it to Alice. Price goes from bad to worse. Leonora reproaches him and in reply he accuses her of unfaithfulness, and, working himself into a frenzy, falls unconscious. Leonora is about to give him Livingston's prescription when he recovers and suspects that he is being poisoned by Leonora. He swallows the medicine. Crazed with fear she calls Livingston. He managers to save Price's life and a month later Leonora's husband, still a shadow of his former self, enters the doctor's office, only to find that he has gone and left no address. A familiar handwriting attracts his attention, and kicking up the letter reads it. It is from his wife to the doctor, saying that she is Mr. Price's wife and will remain so with all the duties and respect, and bids him go forever. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Alec B. Francis Mr. Price Mr. Price See fewer	Oliver Twist (1933)
Belle Adair Leonora Price Leonora Price See fewer	Man of the Hour (1914)
Stanley Walpole Dr. Livingston Dr. Livingston See fewer	The Price of Innocence (1919)
Helen Marten Alice Alice See fewer	Corruption (1917)