A School for Husbands is a lost[1] 1917 American comedy silent film directed by George Melford, written by Hugh Stanislaus Stange and Harvey F. Thew, and starring Fannie Ward, Jack Dean, Edythe Chapman, Frank Elliott, Mabel Van Buren and James Neill.

[2][3] A woman named Betty (Fannie Ward) is simple and plain; her husband finds that boring and doesn't invite her out.

She decides she needs to wear nicer clothes to get the attention of her husband.

Her husband doesn't realize she is rich so he goes out to California to sell some of their property to raise some final money.

When the police and the man who was really killed show up at the same time, Betty's husband realizes he has been acting foolishly.