The Impossible Woman

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The Impossible Woman
Directed by Meyrick Milton
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Distributed byIdeal Film Renting Company
Release date
  • September 1919 (1919-09)
Running time
5 reels; 1,524 metres
CountryUnited 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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