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Old Wives for New
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Produced (directed) by Cecil B. De Mille (Cecil B. DeMille)
Cast: Elliott Dexter [Charles Murdock], Sylvia Ashton [Sophy Murdock], Wanda Hawley [Sophy, in prologue], Florence Vidor [Juliet Raeburn], Theodore Roberts [Tom Berkeley], Helen Jerome Eddy [Norma Murdock], Marcia Manon [Viola], Julia Faye [Jessie], J. Parks Jones [Charley Murdock], Edna Mae Cooper [Bertha], Gustav Seyffertitz (Gustav von Seyffertitz) [Melville Blagden], Tully Marshall [Simcox], Lillian Leighton [maid], Maym Kelso [housekeeper], Edythe Chapman, Alice Taafe (Alice Terry) [a saleswoman]
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation through Paramount Pictures Corporation [Artcraft Pictures]. / Produced by Cecil B. DeMille. Photoplay (scenario) by Jeanie Macpherson, from the novel Old Wives for New by David Graham Phillips. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Costume design by Alpharetta Hoffmann. Assistant directors, Sam Wood and John Browne. Photographed (cinematography) by Alvin Wyckoff. Film editor, Cecil B. DeMille. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 6 May 1918 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP12399]. Previewed early 1918 in Los Angeles, California. Premiered 19 May 1918 at the Rivoli Theatre in New York, New York. Released 16 June 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Some location photography was taken in Kernville, California. The film was originally announced for release on 20 May 1918, then was delayed. The film was rereleased in the USA on 6 June 1920.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 6 March 2011.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Bardèche-History p. 104; Bohn-Light p. 90; Brownlow-Parade p. 185; Higashi-Virgins pp. 132-134, 136, 137, 149-150; Mandelbaum-Screen p. 38; Shipman-Cinema p. 64; Sinyard-Silent p. 145; Sklar-Movie pp. 91, 92, 94 : Website-AFI; Website-GEM.
Home video: DVD.
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