The GoodBad Wife (1920)

William Carter a young Virginian in Paris becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare After William reluctantly returns to America Fanchon follows him and when she is threatened with deportation because of an irregularity in her passport William marries her The marriage causes consternation in the upright Carter family which is compounded when Fanchon performs one of her dances at a church benefit At the conclusion of her dance Fanchon sees a stranger in the audience and faints Later the same man appears at the Carter residence and demands to see her Leigh Carter Williams younger brother becomes angered and shoots the man At the trial Fanchon confesses that the stranger was her estranged husband whom she had been forced to marry when she was but a child The crime thus clarified Leigh is freed and Fanchon who had been expelled earlier from the Carter house is welcomed back by her husband and his family Courtesy TCM