
Socialite Leslie Brown, little more than an innocent schoolgirl, becomes engaged to wealthy playboy Dustan Renshaw who has broken his engagement with Janet Preece in order to marry a woman of breeding. After they are married, the Renshaws live abroad where one day, in her husband's absence, Leslie welcomes her friends the Stonehays as her guests, accompanied by their private secretary, Janet Preece.

A villa on the Côte d’Azur, moonlight bruising the bougainvillea, and the hush of 1923 nitrate stock crackling like distant thunder—The Truth About Husbands opens on a visual poem whose every intertitle drips with arsenic-laced honey. Director William C. deMille—never as lionized as elder brother Cecil—crafts a soci...

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" A villa on the Côte d’Azur, moonlight bruising the bougainvillea, and the hush of 1923 nitrate stock crackling like distant thunder—The Truth About Husbands opens on a visual poem whose every intertitle drips with arsenic-laced honey. Director William C. deMille—never as lionized as elder brother Cecil—crafts a society fresco that feels closer to Schnitzler’s Reigen than to the typical Jazz-Age flapper fare. The film’s five-act structure (overture, temptation, exposure, exile, resurrection) b..."
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