The Trouble with Wives is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair, written by Sada Cowan and Howard Higgin, and starring Florence Vidor, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston, Ford Sterling, Lucy Beaumont, and Edgar Kennedy.

[1][2][3] As described in a film magazine reviews,[4] Grace Hyatt suspects her businessman husband William of being infatuated with his shoe designer from Paris.

[5] A key scene from The Trouble With Wives demonstrates the “extraordinary efforts” that director St. Clair went to in order to eliminate intertitles: The young wife (Florence Vidor) is led to suspect her husband (Tom Moore) of infidelities with blonde vamp (Esther Ralston).

The sequence is conducted entirely in cinematic pantomime related to the wife by her husband’s friend (Ford Sterling).

[6] St. Clair, a cartoonist and graphic artist, designed and drew his own intertitles at Paramount when they were required.