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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School for Wives
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6782 feet
Directed by Victor Hugo Halperin

Cast: Conway Tearle [Richard Keith], Sigrid Holmquist [Betty Lynch], Peggy Kelly [Lady Atherton], Arthur Donaldson [Jordan B. Lynch], Allan Simpson [Howard Lynch], Brian Donlevy [Ralph], Dick Lee [Tomlinson], Dorothy Allen [Muggins], Gerald Oliver Smith [Ronald Van Stuyvesant], Emily Chichester [Kitty Dawson], Alyce Mills [Mary Wilson], Orlando Daly [Harold Waldehast], Jill Lynn [Dardy Waldehast], Buddy Harris, [?] Mary Carr?, [?] Tyrone Power?

Victory Pictures production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America [A Victor Hugo Halperin Production]. / Scenario by Victor Hugo Halperin, from the novel The House of Lynch by Leonard Merrick. Set design by Tec-Art Studios. Cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg and Jack Zanderbrock. Presented by Albert E. Smith. / © 14 February 1925 by Victory Pictures [LP21155]. Released 5 April 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 December 2023.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 facing page 1, p. 53 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.