"Lady Windermere's Fan"
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Lady Windermere's Fan (1925, US) is a silent film based on Oscar Wilde's 1892 play of the same name.
Set in 1890s London. Lady Windermere discovers that her husband could be having an affair with another woman. She confronts her husband but he instead invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday party. Angered by her husband's infidelity, Lady Windermere leaves her husband for a lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband, and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. Do you know what happens next?
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