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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The Sixteenth Wife
Also known as [Olette the Elusive], [Tina and the Turk], [His Sixteenth Wife]
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Charles Brabin

Cast: Peggy Hyland [Olette], Marc MacDermott (Marc McDermott) [Kadir El Raschid], George J. Forth [Jimmy Warburton], Templer Saxe [Hackel]

The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by Greater Vitagraph, Incorporated (V-L-S-E, Incorporated) [A Blue Ribbon Feature]. / Scenario by A. Van Buren Powell, from a short story by Molly Elliot Seawall. Cinematography by Clark R. Nickerson. / © 10 May 1917 by The Vitagraph Company of America [LP10744]. Released 14 May 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 December 2010.

References: Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.