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The Probation Wife
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Sidney A. Franklin

Cast: Norma Talmadge [Josephine Mowbray], Thomas Meighan [Harrison Wade], Florence Billings [Nina Marr, nee Nina Stockley], Alec B. Francis [Huntley McMerton], Walter McEwen [Peter Marr], Amelia Summerville [Eunice Galway], A. Brooke [lawyer], S. Liston [matron]

Norma Talmadge Film Corporation production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation [Select Pictures]. / Scenario by Kathryn Stuart, from a screen story by Angie Ousley Rooser. Cinematography by David Abel. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 3 March 1919 by Norma Talmadge Film Corporation [LP13471]. Released 24 May 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Incomplete prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm positive, missing reel 2]; and in the George Eastman Museum film archive [two reels 35mm nitrate positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 March 2024.

References: Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-AFI; Website-Talmadge.