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Idle Wives is a 1916 American silent drama film co-directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. The film was released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Surviving reels of the film are preserved at the Library of Congress. The film was released on DVD/Blu-ray in 2018.
The People vs. John Doe is a 1916 silent feature film about capital punishment co-directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. The film was released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
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- ↑ Johannes Weber (October 6, 2015). "Like some damned Juggernaut": The proto-filmic monstrosity of late Victorian literary figures. University of Bamberg Press. pp. 128–. ISBN 978-3-86309-348-8.
- ↑ Larry Joseph Kreitzer (March 1, 1999). Pauline Images in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. A&C Black. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-1-85075-933-1.
- ↑ E.J. Fleming (October 25, 2013). Wallace Reid: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol. McFarland. pp. 243–. ISBN 978-0-7864-7725-8.
