Kept Husbands (1931) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Characters
Henrietta Post
(played by Clara Kimball Young) — supporting
Arthur Parker
(played by Robert McWade) — supporting
A wealthy steel magnate and Dot's father. He orchestrates a four-week marriage bet between Dot and Dick, promotes Dick financially, funds their honeymoon, and later offers Dick a career-reviving posit...
Canonical Relationships
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Arthur Parker → Henrietta Post
(Family Husband) — Married couple with differing social attitudes toward class and marriage.
Story Analysis
A marriage tested by wealth, social dependence, career ambition, and the need for mutual compromise.
Plot Progression
A Hero Enters Society
— Arthur recounts a worker's heroic rescue and invites him to dinner. Social class tension is established before the marriage wager begins.
The Four-Week Wager
— Arthur accepts a challenge concerning a rapid courtship. The wager succeeds, leading to marriage despite differences in social circumstances.
Luxury Becomes a Trap
— Arthur finances a European honeymoon, provides a lavish home, and promotes the new husband. The privileged lifestyle gradually weakens the husband's career drive.
The St. Louis Divide
— Arthur offers a career-reviving position in St. Louis. Resistance to relocation turns the marriage into an open conflict over independence and social comfort.
Departure and Reconciliation
— Distrust threatens the marriage while the husband prepares to leave and accept Arthur's position. The couple reunites after agreeing to live on the husband's salary.
