Volume II: Filmography

A HUSBAND'S JEALOUS WIFE

a.k.a. THE HERO'S JEALOUS WIFE

September 23, 1910 (Friday)

Length: 1,000 feet totally (split with The Convict at the beginning)

Character: Comedy

ADVERTISEMENT, The Moving Picture World, September 24, 1910:

"A Husband's Jealous Wife is so screamingly funny that some of your afternoon patrons will come back for the night show just to see it repeated. In fact, it'll 'take' so big that you will vote the whole reel the sublimist double-subject all-comedy release that ever blessed your screen."

SYNOPSIS, The Moving Picture World, September 24, 1910:

"John Boden, a young businessman, has a very jealous wife. If he pays the slightest attention to any other woman it arouses her anger. Boden, while not at all gay, is gallant, and finds that his life is rapidly becoming a burden. He is particularly upset when his wife discharges his British stenographer and hires a woman who is principally remarkable for her homeliness. On several occasions, Boden proves that he is of the stuff of which heroes are made, but each time his jealous wife spoils things for him. Much to his surprise he discovers that the homely Susie is his friend, and believes that he is ill-treated. Finally Boden decides that life at home is impossible, and he elopes with Susie, much to the horror and surprise of Mrs. Boden, who had regarded Susie as her natural ally."

REVIEW by Walton, The Moving Picture News, October 1, 1910:

"I sincerely hope there are few such women. The one this company makes so much of does not forget to assert her ridiculous self."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, October 8, 1910:

"Sometimes unreasoning jealousy receives its just deserts and when a wife creates as much disturbance as the one here depicted perhaps the unfortunate husband is justified in eloping with the homeliest girl he can find who will go with him. Anyhow, the ill-visaged stenographer was the unfortunate man's friend and helped him escape from the unpleasantness which surrounded at home."

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