''The Make-Believe Wife'' is a

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1918 American silent comedy film starring

Billie Burke Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North ...

and directed by John S. Robertson. Based on an original story for the screen, it was produced by

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and distributed by

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Cast

as Phyllis Ashbrook *

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as Roger Mason *

Ida Darling Ida Darling (February 23, 1880 – June 5, 1936) was an American actress of the stage and in silent motion pictures. Biography Darling was born in New York City. She performed on the New York stage for 40 years. During the 10 years she re ...

as Mrs. Ashbrook * David Powell as John Manning *Wray Page as Anita Webb *Isabel O'Madigan as Mrs. Harbury *Frances Kaye as Eileen Harbury *

Bigelow Cooper Jackson Bigelow Cooper (December 21, 1867 – 1953) was an American stage and screen character actor prominent in the silent film era. Biography Born in Springfield, Ohio in 1867, Cooper's early acting experience came in stock theater, including ...

as Mr. Ashbrook *Howard Johnson as Donald Ashbrook *F. Gatenbery Bell as Mr. Harbury

Reception

Like many American films of the time, ''The Make-Believe Wife'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the

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required a cut, in Reel 4, of the five intertitles "Marian?", "Ethel?", "Daisy?", "Louise, Mabel, Irene," etc., and "Oh, Geraldine", scene of man looking at picture and at woman's underwear and nodding head, and the two intertitles "I give you my word that I don't know who is in that room" and "I thought my past was dead".

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