The Better Wife

1919 film by William P.S. Earle
  • July 13, 1919 (1919-07-13) (U.S.)
Running time
50 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Better Wife is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by William P. S. Earle and starring Clara Kimball Young and Edward Kimball.[1][2]

Plot

Cast

  • Clara Kimball Young as Charmian Page
  • Edward Kimball as Mr. Page
  • Nigel Barrie as Sir Richard Beverly
  • Kathlyn Williams as Lady Beverly
  • Ben Alexander as Little Dick
  • Lillian Walker as Helen Kingdom
  • Barbara Tennant as Mrs. Kingdon
  • Irving Cummings as Comte de Cheveral

Preservation

With no copies of The Better Wife located in any film archives,[3] it is a lost film.

References

  1. ^ The Better Wife at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
  2. ^ The Better Wife at the TCM Movie Database.
  3. ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Better Wife
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Better Wife.
  • The Better Wife at IMDb
  • Synopsis at AllMovie


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