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UNITED STATES · 1922

My Wife’s Relations

Buster Keaton
Classical Hollywood mistaken identity inheritance family dynamics social climbing marriage of convenience
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Synopsis

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.

Year1922
CountryUnited States
DirectorBuster Keaton
MovementClassical Hollywood
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