''A Poor Wife's Devotion'' is a 1909 American silent film produced by

Kalem Company The Kalem Company was an early American film studio founded in New York City in 1907. It was one of the first companies to make films abroad and to set up winter production facilities, first in Florida and then in California. Kalem was sold to ...

and directed by

Sidney Olcott Sidney Olcott (born John Sidney Allcott, September 20, 1872 – December 16, 1949) was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. Biography Born John Sidney Allcott in Toronto, he became one of the first great direc ...

, shot in

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, a ...

Production notes

The film was shot in

Jacksonville Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the c ...

, Florida.

Bibliography

* The Moving Picture World, Vol 4 n°, p 723. * The New York Dramatic Mirror, May 6, 1909, p 15.

External links

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''A Poor Wife's Devotion''
website dedicated to Sidney Olcott 1909 films 1909 drama films 1909 short films American black-and-white films American silent short films Films directed by Sidney Olcott Films set in Florida Films shot in Jacksonville, Florida Silent American drama films 1900s American films 1900s English-language films {{1900s-US-film-stub