A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2012 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Idle Wives
(1916) American
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley

Cast: Lois Weber [Anne], Phillips Smalley [John Wall], Mary MacLaren [Molly], Edwin Hearn [Richard], Seymour Hastings [Billy Shane], Countess Du Cello [Wall’s mother], Pauline Aster [Alberta], Cecilia Matthews [Molly’s mother], Ben Wilson, Maude George, Neva Gerber

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed on State Rights basis by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, from the novel Idle Wives by James Oppenheim. Cinematography by Allen Siegler. / © 15 September 1916 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP9129]. Released September 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the New Zealand Film Archive film archive [fragmentary 35mm positive (reel 1 only)]; and in the Library of Congress film archive [fragmentary 35mm positive (single reel only)].

Listing updated: 7 June 2010.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 23 : Website-AFI.