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The Matrimaniac
Also known as The Matrimoniac in the USA
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Paul Powell
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks [Jimmie Conroy], Constance Talmadge [Marna Lewis], Wilbur Higby [Colonel T.H. Lewis, Marna’s father], Clyde Hopkins [G. Walter ‘Wally’ Henderson], Fred Warren [Reverend Thomas Timothy Tubbs, D.D.], Winifred Westover [the maid], Monte Blue [the assistant hotel manager], Charles Stevens [the telephone pole lineman], [?] ? [the railroad cop]
The Fine Arts Film Company production; distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. / Scenario by John Emerson and Anita Loos, from a screen story by Octavus Roy Cohen + [J.U. Giesy]. / Premiered 3 December 1916 in New York, New York. Released 16 December 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Limbacher-Feature p. 156 incorrectly identifies the director as John Emerson. [?] The film may have been rereleased in the USA by The Film Distributors League, Incorporated.
Comedy.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2883.
Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Cohen Media Group (Raymond Rohauer collection) [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 24 February 2025.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.2883; Bardèche-History p. 115; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 82; Lahue-Triangle pp. 43, 140; Limbacher-Feature p. 156; Tarbox-Lost p. 252.
Home video: DVD.
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