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Foolish Wives (1922)

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According to the Universal's press department, the picture cost $1,103,736.38; was 11 months and six days in filming; six months i [...]
— review by Variety Staff at Variety - 1 January 1922

Advertised, reluctantly, by Universal as the "First Million Dollar Movie," Erich Von Stroheim's Foolish Wives became one of the gr [...]
— review by Hans J. Wollstein at allmovie

The first full-scale working-out of Stroheim's explorations of the ground between high society manners and terminal squalor and de [...]
— review by TR at Time Out

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Director

Erich von Stroheim

Writers

Marian Ainslee (titles)
Walter Anthony (titles)
Erich von Stroheim (screenplay)
Erich von Stroheim (story)
Erich von Stroheim (titles)

Actors

Rudolph Christians (Andrew J. Hughes (U.S. Special-Envoy to Monaco))
Miss DuPont (Helen Hughes, his wife)
Maude George (Her Highness Olga Petchnikoff)
Mae Busch (Princess Vera Petchnikoff)
Erich von Stroheim (Their Cousin, Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin (Capt. 3rd Hussars Imper. Russian Army))
Dale Fuller (Maruschka, a Maid)
Al Edmundsen (Pavel Pavlich, a Butler)
Cesare Gravina (Cesare Ventucci, a Counterfeiter)
C.J. Allen (Albert 1., Prince of Monaco)
Country: United States
Black and white film
Silent film
Running time: 384 minutes
(6 hours 24 minutes)
Release date:
United States: 11 January 1922

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