Foolish Wives

A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

Cast

Erich von Stroheim

as Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin

Rudolph Christians

as Andrew J. Hughes

Miss DuPont

as Helen Hughes

Maude George

as Princess Olga Petchnikoff

Mae Busch

as Princess Vera Petchnikoff

Dale Fuller

as Maruschka

Cesare Gravina

as Cesare Ventucci

Malvina Polo

as Marietta

Albert Edmondson

as Pavel Pavlich

Mary Philbin

as Crippled Girl (uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

It's a soap. Despite all the associated history of cuts, recuts and restoration it is still just a beautifully photographed soap opera. Erich von Stroheim did just about everything in this entertaining, if a little too cyclical, tale of a cad. That cad "Count Sergius Karanzim" (EVS) parades around t...

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