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A Wife by Proxy

8.0191750mNRMovieDrama

The film opens in Ireland, as a dying Patrick McNairne tells his daughter Jerry to go to New York and look up Norton Burbeck, a wealthy young man whose life Patrick had saved some time earlier (the surviving print, largely complete, lacks…

DirectorJohn H. Collins
WritersJohn B. Clymer·Charles Logue

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Cast · Directed by John H. Collins

MTMabel Taliaferro
Mabel Taliaferro
Jerry McNairne
BW
Bob Walker
Norton Burbeck
SCSally Crute
Sally Crute
Beatrice Gaden
FJ
Fred Jones
Frederick Gaden
YBYale Benner
Yale Benner
Howard Curtis
GM
George D. Melville
Timothy McNairn
RARicca Allen
Ricca Allen
Scraggs (housekeeper)
EM
Edward Mack
Flynn (the butler)

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A Wife by Proxy hasn't started streaming in Australia yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around February 24, 1917. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.