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Directed by | Meyrick Milton |
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Distributed by | Ideal Film Renting Company |
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Running time | 5 reels; 1,524 metres |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent |
The Impossible Woman is a 1919 British silent comedy film directed by Meyrick Milton and starring Constance Collier, Langhorn Burton and Christine Rayner. [1] It was based on the 1912 novel Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, and 1916 play of the same name by C. Haddon Chambers.
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