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Idle Wives

5.0191630mMovieDrama

Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.

DirectorsPhillips Smalley·Lois Weber
WritersLois Weber·Phillips Smalley
ProducersPhillips Smalley·Lois Weber

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Cast · Directed by Phillips Smalley

LWLois Weber
Lois Weber
Anne
PSPhillips Smalley
Phillips Smalley
John Wall
MMMary MacLaren
Mary MacLaren
Molly
EHEdward Hearn
Edward Hearn
Richard
SH
Seymour Hastings
Billy Shane
CC
Countess Du Cello
Wall's Mother
PA
Pauline Aster
Alberta
CM
Cecilia Matthews
Molly's Mother
BWBen F. Wilson
Ben F. Wilson
Mr. Jamison
MGMaude George
Maude George
Mrs. Jamison
NGNeva Gerber
Neva Gerber
Mary Wells
CPCharles Perley
Charles Perley
Tough Burns

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Idle Wives hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around November 4, 1916. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.