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Ladies Must Live
(1921) American
B&W : Eight reels / 7482 feet
Directed by George Loane Tucker

Cast: Robert Ellis [Anthony Mulvain], Mahlon Hamilton [Ralph Lincourt], Betty Compson [Christine Bleeker], Leatrice Joy [Barbara], Hardee Kirkland [William Hollins], Gibson Gowland [Michael Le Prim], Jack Gilbert (John Gilbert) [the gardener], Cleo Madison [Mrs. Lincourt], Snitz Edwards [Edward Barron], Lucille Hutton [Nell Martin], Lule Warrenton [Nora Flanagan], William V. Mong [Max Bleeker], Jack McDonald [the butler], Marcia Manon [Nancy], Arnold Gregg [Ned Klegg]

Mayflower Photoplay Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by George Loane Tucker, from the novel Ladies Must Live by Alice Duer Miller. / © 29 October 1921 by Mayflower Photoplay Corporation [LP17143]. Premiered circa 30 October 1921 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and in Los Angeles, California. Released 6 November 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Listing updated: 23 January 2013.

References: Drew-Speaking pp. 65, 66, 276; Weaver-Twenty p. 142 : Website-AFI.