Idle Wives

Idle Wives

78 mins | Drama | Sept. 16, 1916

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.

Idle Wives

78 mins | Drama | Sept. 16, 1916

Idle Wives
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.
Producers Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Original title Idle Wives
Directors Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley
Writers James Oppenheim, Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley

Cast

Lois Weber

as Anne

Phillips Smalley

as John Wall

Mary MacLaren

as Molly

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