The Married Virgin
AKA Frivolous Wives in the USA
(1918) American
B&W : [?] Six or seven? reels
Directed by Joe Maxwell

Cast: Vera Sisson [Mary McMillan], Rodolfo di Valentina (Rudolph Valentino) [Count Roberto di San Fraccini], Frank Newberg [Douglas McKee], Kathleen Kirkham [Mrs. McMillan], Edward Jobson [John McMillan], Lillian Leighton [Anne Mullin]

Maxwell Productions production; distributed [?] on State Rights basis? by [?] General Film Company? / Produced by Joe Maxwell. Scenario by Hayden Talbot, from a story by Hayden Talbot. / Released [?] December 1918? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The first production of Maxwell Productions. The production was shot in rented space at the Universal Studios in California. The film was announced for released through General Film Company in December 1918, but may not have been in fact distributed. In 1920, Fidelity Pictures Company acquired the film, cut it to six reels, and released in on the State Rights market. By May 1920, the film was reviewed under the title Frivoloous Wives, but the film appears to have been distributed under both titles throughout 1920. After Valentino’s success in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Maxwell rereleased what is believed to be a reedited version of the film under the title Frivolous Wives. Video producer David Shepard added footage found in the Library of Congress and in Belgium and Luxembourg to an existing print of Frivolous Wives to reconstruct The Married Virgin.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Accidents: Automobile - Crime: Blackmail - Engineers - Infidelity - Italians - Marriages: Annulments, Dowries - Nobility - Self-sacrifice - Stepmothers - Transportation: Automobiles

Listing updated: 11 October 2006.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.2847; Brownlow-Behind p. 29 : ClasIm-298 p. 17.

Home Video: DVD.