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The Make-Believe Wife
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4869 feet
Directed by John Stuart Robertson (John S. Robertson)

Cast: Billie Burke [Phyllis Ashbrook], Alfred Hickman [Roger Mason], Ida Darling [Mrs. Ashbrook], David Powell [John Manning], Wray Page [Anita Webb], Isabel O’Madigan [Mrs. Harbury], Frances Kaye [Eileen Harbury], Bigelow Cooper [Mr. Ashbrook], Howard Johnson [Donald Ashbrook], F. Gatenbery Bell [Mr. Harbury]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation through Paramount Pictures Corporation [Paramount Pictures]. / Scenario by Adrian Gil-Spear, from a screen story by Edward Childs Carpenter. Cinematography by William Marshall. Presented by Adolph Zukor. / © 11 October 1918 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP12965]. Released 17 November 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 27 November 2010.

References: Website-AFI.