The Real Adventure is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor,[1] based on the best-selling novel by Henry Kitchell Webster that was serialized in 1915 and published as a book in 1916.

[3] As described in a film magazine,[4] impetuous and headstrong Rose Stanton (Vidor) accidentally meets famous attorney Rodney Aldrich (Fillmore) when a conductor rudely accosts her for her streetcar fare.

Rose becomes cross at Rodney while on their honeymoon at his mountain lodge when he studies from a law book for an hour.

Back home, after her husband ridicules her for attempting to study law, she determines to leave him and, using the name Doris Dane, she becomes famous in New York City as the designer of stage dresses.

In Woman, Wake Up, Florence Vidor becomes involved in society to please her husband and is so successful at it that he becomes jealous, while in The Real Adventure, she is transformed after her marriage to a wealthy husband: she studies law, goes on stage as a chorus girl, designs costumes, opens a salon but realizes home and family must come first” [5]