Hairpins (1920)

Directors

Fred Niblo

Cast

Aggie Herring, Al W. Filson, Enid Bennett, Margaret Livingston, Matt Moore, William Conklin

The story

The disgust of Rex Rossmore at the hairpin-strewing, straggly locks of his young bride Muriel and her over-fastidious housekeeping make it easy for him to forsake her company outside the home for that of his stenographer Effie Wainwright. Overhearing her husband's confession of her failure as a wife as he makes it to his employer, she considers suicide. Making herself orderly for death, she discovers that she is beautiful in life, and conceives a plan whereby she plays an affair of her own against that of her husband and stenographer, acquaints herself with the ways of the gay world and practices them until her husband's rage brings issue…

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