Josselyn's Wife (1919 film)

Josselyn's Wife is a 1919 American silent drama film based on a novel by Kathleen Norris.

It was directed by Howard C. Hickman and starred Bessie Barriscale, Nigel Barrie, and Joseph J. Dowling.

[1] As described in a film magazine,[2] Ellen Latimer Josselyn (Barriscale), after the birth of her son, influences her husband Gibbs (Barrie) to forget the quarrel he had with his father (Dowling) at the time his father took a much younger woman for his wife.

Lillian, the young stepmother, has grown tired of her society friends and sets out to make Gibbs fall in love with her.

On the next morning the elder Josselyn is found dead from a bullet wound and Gibbs is arrested.