Released 100 years ago today – 25 September 1921

The Affairs of Anatol (1921)

Stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Wanda Hawley

Director: Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)

Writers: Arthur Schnitzler (suggested by play of the same name), Jeanie Macpherson (by)

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation

Time: 117 min

Rating: UR

Status: Survived

Plot

Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation that he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment only to have her two-time him. He comforts the near suicide Annie only to have her rob him of his wallet. "Satan" Synne, the "wickedest woman in New York," looks promising but she's only plying her trade to help raise funds for her husband's surgery. He decides to return to his wife, with all her faults, only to find her carousing with his best friend Max.