A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Featuring:
Blanche Cornwall, Darwin Karr, Sally Crute
Directed by:
Alice Guy
Release Date:
December 27, 1912
Original Title:
The Woman Behind the Man
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Solax Film Company
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Two couples start out in life, after a honeymoon. One couple has the prospect of living on $100 a week, and the other couple is forced to live on $25 a week. The $25-a-week pair are satisfied with their existence and live within their income. On the other hand, the other couple, who have an income of $100 a week, are discontented, because of the woman's extravagance. Instead of living within her income, she expresses her dissatisfaction and nags at her husband and scolds him for earning so little money. She buys new clothes very often, and spends twice the money he makes, thus causing him to go into debt, and in order to make both ends meet he is forced to steal. During the time that the $25-a-week couple have been making their way ahead, prospering and becoming successful, the other couple continually keep going down the ladder. The end finds this couple separating, the woman, in poverty, about to take the only road open to a poor woman with extravagant tastes, and the man we find in a saloon, disheveled and shabby, about to be thrown out by the bouncer.
Director:
Alice Guy-Blaché
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