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The Other Woman
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by George L. Cox
Cast: Charles Clary [William Smythe], Lillian Leighton [Mrs. William Smythe], Winifred Greenwood [Dorothy Kent, Smythe’s assistant], Baby Nuber [the Smythe baby], Walter Roberts [the engraving company president], William Duncan [the engraving company vice president], Rose Evans [Mrs. Berg], Myrtle Stedman [Mrs. Berg’s stenographer], Adrienne Kroell [Miss Kent’s maid], Edgar G. Wynn [the office boy]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributeed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by George L. Cox. / Released 15 April 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Romance.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Dorothy Kent secretly loves her employer, William Smythe, a photographer. Smythe and his pretty assistant have, for some years, been attempting to perfect a process of color photography. Smythe grows discouraged and is about to abandon the work when Dorothy suddenly achieves the desired goal. Smythe embraces Dorothy, much to that young lady’s pleasure. Smythe’s wife has observed the embrace. Believing that she has interrupted a liaison between Miss Kent and her husband, she takes her child and leaves. The husband rushes home. He finds that his wife has left him for good. Upon returning to the office he finds that Dorothy has patented and sold the color process secret, and is now wealthy. The years pass, Smythe, once strong and prosperous is now the penniless, dissipated plaything of the vampire woman Dorothy. Fate has also dealt harshly with Mrs. Smythe and we now find her reduced to the position of scullery maid. By coincidence she is employed by Dorothy. Smythe calls upon Dorothy for the last time. He shows her a revolver. He asks for a last kiss. She gives him a sneer. He turns to go and comes face to face with his wife. Slowly, a mutual understanding comes to the long-estranged pair, and as they leave the room, happy once more in the possession of each other, the other woman slowly, cynically picks up the revolver and, the picture ends, leaving behind it a moral.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 November 2023.
References: Lahue-Selig p. 87 : Website-IMDb.
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