Idle Wives

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Idle Wives

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Release date

September 15, 1916 (1916-09-15)

Running time

7

Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Surviving reels of the film are preserved at the Library of Congress. The film was released on DVD/Blu-ray in 2018.^[2]

Plot

Characters go to the movies to watch Life's Mirror, a film where they see their own lives turned into dramas. A shop girl dating a young man against her parents' wishes watches her onscreen counterpart become pregnant; an impoverished family watches as a family onscreen lives beyond their means; and an unfaithful husband watches as his onscreen wife leaves him and returns to social work. After the film characters have learned their lessons: the shop girl apologizes to her parents; the family decides to live within its means; and the wealthy man leaves his mistress and returns to his wife.

Cast

Lois Weber as Anne
Phillips Smalley as John Wall
Mary MacLaren as Molly
Edwin Hearn as Richard
Seymour Hastings as Billy Shane
Countess Du Cello as Wall's Mother
Pauline Aster as Alberta
Cecilia Matthews as Molly's Mother
Ben F. Wilson as Mr. Jamison
Maude George as Mrs. Jamison
Neva Gerber as Mary Wells
Charles Perley as Tough Burns

References

Further reading

Slide, Anthony (1996). Lois Weber: The Director Who Lost Her Way in History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 37.
ISBN 0313299455
.

Stamp, Shelley (2015). Lois Weber in Early Hollywood. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. pp. 105–106.
ISBN 978-0520284463
.

Routt, Bill (2001). Lois Weber, or the exigency of writing.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Idle Wives.

Idle Wives on National Film Preservation Foundation cite with a brief clip and film notes by film historian Shelley Stamp
Idle Wives entry in American Film Institute catalog
Idle Wives at
IMDb

Synopsis at AllMovie

Films directed by Lois Weber

The Fine Feathers (1912) (short)
A Japanese Idyll (1912) (short)
Leaves in the Storm (1912) (short)
Suspense (1913) (short)
The Jew's Christmas (1913)
The Merchant of Venice (1914)
False Colors (1914)
It's No Laughing Matter (1915)
Hypocrites (1915)
Sunshine Molly (1915)
Captain Courtesy (1915)
Hop, the Devil's Brew (1916)
Idle Wives (1916) (short)
John Needham's Double (1916)
The People vs. John Doe (1916)
Where Are My Children? (1916)
The Eye of God (1916)
Shoes (1916)
Saving the Family Name (1916)
Even As You and I (1917)
The Mysterious Mrs. M (1917)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917)
For Husbands Only (1917)
A Midnight Romance (1919)
When a Girl Loves (1919)
To Please One Woman (1920)
What's Worth While? (1921)
Too Wise Wives (1921)
The Blot (1921)
What Do Men Want? (1921)
A Chapter in Her Life (1923)
The Marriage Clause (1926)
Sensation Seekers (1927)
The Angel of Broadway (1927)

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