{{short description|1923 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Yesterday's Wife | image = Yesterday's Wife lobby card.jpg | caption = | director = Edward LeSaint | producer = Harry Cohn | writer = Evelyn Campbell | narrator = | starring = Irene Rich <br> Eileen Percy <br> Lottie Williams | music = | editing = | cinematography = King D. Gray | studio = CBC Film Sales Corporation | distributor = CBC Film Sales Corporation | released = {{Film date|1923|08|15}} | runtime = 56 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Yesterday's Wife''''' is a lost<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yesterday's Wife [motion picture] |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10884/ |accessdate=2023-09-27 |work=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database}}</ref> 1923 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Irene Rich, Eileen Percy, and Lottie Williams. The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation, which would later become Columbia Pictures.<ref>Munden p. 931</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150928080841/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=13515 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Yesterday's Wife''] (Wayback)</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: ''Yesterday's Wife'' |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume=15 |issue=12 |pages=28 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=9 February 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibit00newy/page/n765/mode/1up |accessdate=12 August 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> following a mutual misunderstanding, a divorce decree parts Gilbert and Megan Armes. She becomes a companion to an old lady while Gilbert weds Viola, who is frivolous and a flirt. Megan and her former husband meet years later at a fashionable resort and find that they are still in love with each other. Viola is drowned in a boating accident. Megan and Gilbert remarry.
==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Irene Rich as Megan Daye * Eileen Percy as Viola Armes * Lottie Williams as Sophia * Josephine Crowell as Mrs. Harbours * Lewis Dayton as Gilbert Armes * Philo McCullough as Victor Fleming * William Scott as Jeo Coombs }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
==External links== {{commons category|Yesterday's Wife (film)}} *{{IMDb title|0014628}} *[https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/375/0818/16/yesterdays-wife-6sh-1923-stone-litho_375_c62cf3abb1ac215bd2c91b7e512f2379.jpg lobby poster] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205233105/https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/375/0818/16/yesterdays-wife-6sh-1923-stone-litho_375_c62cf3abb1ac215bd2c91b7e512f2379.jpg |date=February 5, 2024 }}(archived)
Category:1923 films Category:1923 comedy-drama films Category:Films directed by Edward LeSaint Category:American silent feature films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Columbia Pictures films Category:1923 English-language films Category:1923 American films Category:American silent comedy-drama films Category:English-language comedy-drama films
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