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Just a Wife
(1920) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels
Directed by Howard Hickman

Cast: Roy Stewart [Richard Emerson], Leatrice Joy [Mary Virginia Lee], Albert Van [Robert Lee], Kathlyn Williams [Eleanor Lathrop], William Lion West [Tom Marvin]

National Picture Theatres, Incorporated, production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation [National Pictures]. / Scenario by Katherine Reed, from the play Just a Wife by Eugene Walter. Cinematography by Max Du Pont. Presented by Lewis J. Selznick. / © 23 February 1920 by National Picture Theatres, Incorporated [LP14783]. Released January 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / National Picture Theatres’ first production.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2319.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 3 March 2011.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2319; Drew-Speaking pp. 65, 276 : Variety-19191226 p. 205.