Idle Wives

Idle Wives is a 1916 American silent drama film co-directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley.[1] The film was released by 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]

Idle Wives
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Directed byLois Weber
Phillips Smalley
Written byLois Weber
StarringLois Weber
Phillips Smalley
Mary MacLaren
Maude George
CinematographyAllen G. Siegler
Distributed byUniversal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date
  • September 15, 1916 (1916-09-15)
Running time
7 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

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
gollark: Ugh, go project yourself onto arbitrary hyperplanes, pyrobot.
gollark: I think you're confusing a bunch of things right now. Or possibly just two things, many worlds and extra spatial dimensions.
gollark: "We"?
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gollark: Things which extend into those instead of just having a constant fixed position in said new spatial dimension are also not going to somehow stop being subject to time, unless the laws of physics privilege it somehow, which would be really weird.

References
  1. "American Film Institute Catalog".
  2. "Kino Lorber Home Video".

Further reading
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