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What Every Woman Knows
(1921) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6772 feet
Directed by William C. de Mille

Cast: Lois Wilson [Maggie Wylie], Conrad Nagel [John Shand], Charles Ogle [Alick Wylie], Fred Huntly [David Wylie], Guy Oliver [James Wylie], Winter Hall [Charles Venables], Lillian Tucker [Sybil Tenterden], Claire McDowell [Comtesse de la Brière], Robert Brower [the Scotch lawyer]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Olga Printzlau, from the play What Every Woman Knows by James M. Barrie. Cinematography by L. Guy Wilky. / © 24 April 1921 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP16412]. Premiered 12 March 1921 in New York, New York. Released 24 April 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 29 November 2023.

References: Drew-Speaking pp. 256, 257, 260, 289 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.