The Make-Believe Wife should not be confused with Pretend Wife.
| The Make-Believe Wife | |
| Director: | John S. Robertson |
| Producer: | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
| Starring: | Billie Burke |
| Cinematography: | William Marshall |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Runtime: | 50 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Make-Believe Wife is a lost[1] 1918 American silent comedy film starring Billie Burke and directed by John S. Robertson. Based on an original story for the screen, it was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.[2] [3]
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 Chicago Board of Censors 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".[4]