Blind Wives

Blind Wives
Blind Wives
	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	December 19, 1920;
Running time	9 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Blind Wives is a 1920 American

George Eastman House and by the Library of Congress.^[1]^[2]

Plot

As summarized in a film publication,[3] the film shows through a dream sequence the various tragedies and hardships endured by those who make fancy dresses.

Anne's passion is clothes, but her husband closes her account at Jacquelin's. In a pique she goes to sleep and dreams, while her new dress with its flower design is draped over a chair. In the first episode, a crippled girl named Annie makes the flowers, and finally sells her wonderful hair and then goes away so that she will not stand in the way of her sister's happiness. The second episode shows the unhappy Russian story of the sable which decorates the gown, with a trapper coming home to discover that his wife is unfaithful. The third story involves Annette and her husband Nicolas, a weaver who is dying. Annette tries unsuccessfully to work the loom, but is saved by the arrival of an old sweetheart Johnny, who comes to her rescue. The last episode involves a mannequin (clothing shop worker?) who fights to maintain her reputation, and eventually kills the manager of the establishment when he tries to keep her away from her dying mother. Anne then awakens, cured of her passion for clothes and happy with her husband once more.