A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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What Wives Want
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4745 feet
Directed by Jack Conway

Cast: Ethel Grey Terry [Claire Howard], Vernon Steele [Austin Howard], Ramsey Wallace [John Reeves], Niles Welsh [David Loring], Margaret Landis [Alice Loring], Lila Leslie [Mrs. Van Dusen], Harry A. Burrows [Newhart]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Perry N. Vekroff, from a screen story by Edward T. Lowe Jr. Cinematography by Charles Kaufman. / © 20 April 1923 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP18890]. Released 6 May 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Society.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 29 November 2023.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 43; Sherwood-Best p. 195 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.