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How to Educate a Wife
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6800 feet
Directed by Monta Bell

Cast: Marie Prevost [Mabel Todd], Monte Blue [Ernest Todd], Claude Gillingwater [Henry Bancks], Vera Lewis [Mrs. Bancks], Betty Francisco [Betty Breese], Creighton Hale [Billy Breese], Edward Earle [Robert Benson], Nellie Bly Baker [Katinka]

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Douglas Z. Doty (Douglas Doty), from an adaptation by Grant Carpenter of a screen story by Elinor Glyn. Cinematography by Charles Van Enger. / © 21 May 1924 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP20226]. Released 1 May 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.2613.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) - Businessmen - Ethics: Business - Failures - Families: Husband-wife relationships - Insurance agents - Marriages

Listing updated: 8 December 2024.

References: AFI-F2 n. F2.2613; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 46 : Website-IMDb.