
24 May 1919

The Probation Wife
A 1919 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
When anarchist bombs disrupt the engagement ball of Princess Marie Pavlovna, her fiancé, Prince Michail Koloyar, helps her to escape in a carriage. Then Theo Kameneff, secretly in the pay of a foreign government, becomes dictator and, desiring the princess, issues an edict that all women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-two must register and become state property.

Princess Marie Pavlovna

Prince Michail Koloyar

Theo Kameneff

Orel Kosloff

Vasili Lazoff
Masha Lazoff
Leo Pushkin

Nadia Kameneff


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