Idle Wives Trailer

Idle Wives Trailer (1916)

16 September 1916 Drama 30 mins

Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.

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Cast

Lois Weber

as Anne

Phillips Smalley

as John Wall

Edward 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

International Releases Dates

United States 16 September 1916

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Idle Wives (1916)

Universal Film Mfg. Co. First two reels of a Lois Weber feature in which a film inspires three sets of moviegoers to remake their lives. Preserved in collaboration ...

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