Foolish Wives is a 1922 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures under their SuperJewel banner and written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. Although uncredited, Irving Thalberg, aged 22, was in charge of production. Thalberg would later become one of the most famous studio heads of all time. The drama features von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George, and others.
The silent drama tells the story of a man who names himself Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin von Stroheim in order to seduce rich women and extort money from them.He has set up shop in Monte Carlo and his partners in crime and possible lovers are his cousins Princess Vera Petchnikoff Busch and Her Highness Olga Petchnikoff George. ........
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