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The Married Virgin
Also known as Frivolous Wives in the USA
(1918) United States of America
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. Ethel Spencer McMillan, Mary’s stepmother], Edward Jobson [John McMillan, her husband and Mary’s father], Lillian Leighton [?] [Anne Mullin or Annie Mullins?, the McMillan housekeeper], [?] ? [James, the McMillan valet], [?] ? [the McMillan butler], [?] ? [the McMillan maid]

Maxwell Productions production; distributed [?] on State Rights basis? by [?] The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Produced by Joe Maxwell. Scenario by Hayden Talbot, from a screen story by Hayden Talbot. / Released [?] December 1918? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 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 release through The General Film Company, Incorporated, 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.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

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

Listing updated: 23 August 2012.

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

Home video: DVD.

 
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