Bluebeard's 8th Wife

[1] The play ran on Broadway in 1921 starring Ina Claire in the Swanson role.

[2] Paramount remade the story in 1938 directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert.

[3] As described in Exhibitors Trade Review,[4] Mona marries John Brandon and immediately after discovers that she is his eighth wife.

Determined that she will not be the eighth to be divorced from him, she sets out on a teaser campaign which proves very effective until Brandon tells her that she is bought and paid for.

Furious, she determines to give him grounds for a divorce and is subsequently found in her room with another man.