School for Wives (film)
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| Directed by | Victor Halperin |
| Written by | Victor Halperin |
| Based on | The House of Lynch by Leonard Merrick |
| Produced by | Victor Halperin |
| Starring | Conway Tearle Sigrid Holmquist |
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
Production company | Victory Pictures |
| Distributed by | Vitagraph Company of America |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and .[1][2] It provided an early role for the future star Brian Donlevy. Based on Leonard Merrick's 1907 melodramatic novel The House of Lynch, it was not well-received by critics.[3][4]
Plot[]
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Cast[]
- Conway Tearle as Richard Keith
- Sigrid Holmquist as Betty Lynch
- as Lady Atherton
- Arthur Donaldson as Jordan B. Lynch
- as Howard Lynch
- Brian Donlevy as Ralph
- as Tomlinson
- Dorothy Allen as Muggins
- Gerald Oliver Smith as Ronald Van Stuyvesant
- as Kitty Dawson
- Alyce Mills as Mary Wilson
- as Harold Waldehast
- as Dardy Waldehast
- Mary Carr
- Tyrone Power Sr.
Preservation[]
With no prints of School for Wives located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.
References[]
- ^ Goble p. 942
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: School for Wives at silentera.com
- ^ Sculthorpe p. 16
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: School for Wives (Wayback)
- ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: School for Wives
Bibliography[]
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Sculthorpe, Derek. Brian Donlevy, the Good Bad Guy: A Bio-Filmography. McFarland, 2017.
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- 1925 films
- 1925 drama films
- American films
- American drama films
- American silent feature films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Victor Halperin
- American black-and-white films
- Films based on British novels
- Vitagraph Studios films
- 1925 lost films
- Lost drama films
- 1920s silent drama film stubs