A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Ruth Roland (left). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Ruth Roland [Erma Desmond / Bertie Stanley], Andrew Arbuckle [Professor Stanley], Marguerite Nichols [Phyllis Burnham], R. Henry Bowers [Gilberta Stanley], Fred Whitman [Chester Clynch], Daniel Gilfether

The Balboa Amusement Producing Company production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Gold Rooster Plays]. / From the play A Message from Reno. Cinematography by William Beckway. / © 29 April 1916 (as The Matrimonial Matyr) by Balboa Feature Film Company [LU8186]. Released 19 June 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was shown in the United States in the Pathécolor color stencil process.

Comedy.

Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2884.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Divorce - USA: Nevada: Reno

Listing updated: 17 October 2022.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2884; Tarbox-Lost p. 191 : Website-IMDb.