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The Foolish Matrons
(1921) United States of America
B&W : [?] Six or Seven? reels / 6544 feet
Directed by Maurice Tourneur and Clarence L. Brown (Clarence Brown)

Cast: Hobart Bosworth [Doctor Ian Fraser], Doris May [Georgia Wayne], Mildred Manning [Sheila Hopkins], Kathleen Kirkham [Annis Grand], Betty Schade [the mysterious woman], Margaret McWade [Mrs. Eugenia Sheridan], Charles Meredith [Lafayette Wayne], Wallace MacDonald [Anthony Sheridan], Michael Dark [Chester King], Frankie Lee [Bobby]

Maurice Tourneur Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Associated Producers, Incorporated. / Scenario by Wyndham Gittens, from the novel The Foolish Matrons by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne. Cinematography by Charles Van Enger and Kenneth Gordon MacLean. / © 7 June 1921 by Maurice Tourneur Productions, Incorporated [LP16654]. Released 19 June 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 March 2011.

References: Shipman-Cinema pp. 72, 75 : Website-AFI; Website-GEM.