''Daytime Wives'' is a 1923 American

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Émile Chautard Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era. He directed more than 100 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in more than 60 films ...

, and written by Helmer Walton Bergman and Wyndham Gittens. The film stars Derelys Perdue,

Wyndham Standing Charles Wyndham Standing''Silent Film Necrology'', 2nd Edition by Eugene Michael Vazzana, c. 2001 page 497 (23 August 1880 – 1 February 1963) was an English film actor. Early years Standing was born in London, England and died in Los Angele ...

, Grace Darmond,

William Conklin William Conklin (December 25, 1872 – March 21, 1935) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 80 silent films between 1913 and 1929. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Hollywood, California. Partial filmography * ''Ariz ...

Guy Edward Hearn Guy Edward Hearn (September 6, 1888 – April 15, 1963) was an American actor who, in a forty-year film career, starting in 1915, played hundreds of roles, starting with juvenile leads, then, briefly, as leading man, all during the silent er ...

, and Katherine Lewis. The film was released on September 2, 1923, by

Film Booking Offices of America Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), registered as FBO Pictures Corp., was an American film studio of the Silent film, silent era, a midsize producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole, an ...

Cast

* Derelys Perdue as Ruth Holt *

as Elwood Adams * Grace Darmond as Francine Adams *

as Amos Martin *

as Ben Branscom *Katherine Lewis as Betty Branscom *Kenneth Gibson as Larry Gilfeather *Christina Mott as Celeste *Jack Carlyle as Jack Jagner *Craig Biddle Jr. as A Laborer *

Mickey McBan Mickey McBan (February 27, 1919 – October 30, 1979) was an American child actor. He was born in Spokane, Washington to British theatrical parents. McBan began his acting career at the age of four in '' Poor Men's Wives'' and specialized in por ...

as Child (uncredited)

References

External links

* *Mike Mashon (January 2, 2019),
Welcoming Two “New” Films to the Public Domain
, Library of Congress. Copy of partially restored ''Daytime Wives'' ("work in progress"). {{Émile Chautard 1923 films 1920s English-language films Silent American drama films 1923 drama films Film Booking Offices of America films Films directed by Emile Chautard American silent feature films American black-and-white films 1920s American films English-language drama films