A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2013 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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(1918) American
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Charles Miller

Cast: Norma Talmadge [Margot Hughes], Eugene O’Brien [Chadwick Himes], Ida Darling [Mrs. Hughes], William Courtleigh Jr. [Dick Derwent], Charles Wellesley [Donald Nugent], Florence B. Billings [Madge Sears]

Norma Talmadge Film Corporation production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Harry O. Hoyt, from a screen story by Margery Land Mason. Cinematography by Alfred Moses Jr. and Edward Wynard. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 6 March 1918 by Norma Talmadge Film Corporation [LP12185]. Released February 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: The Man Who Bought a Wife.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [incomplete 35mm positive (possibly missing reel six)].

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Listing updated: 20 June 2012.

References: Website-AFI; Website-Talmadge.