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1910Thanhouser Company1,000 feetComedy

A Husband’s Jealous Wife

Also released as The Hero’s Jealous Wife

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

The story

“John Boden, a young businessman, has a very jealous wife. If he pays the slightest attention to any other woman it arouses her anger. Boden, while not at all gay, is gallant, and finds that his life is rapidly becoming a burden. He is particularly upset when his wife discharges his British stenographer and hires a woman who is principally remarkable for her homeliness. On several occasions, Boden proves that he is of the stuff of which heroes are made, but each time his jealous wife spoils things for him. Much to his surprise he discovers that the homely Susie is his friend, and believes that he is ill-treated. Finally Boden decides that life at home is impossible, and he elopes with Susie, much to the horror and surprise of Mrs. Boden, who had regarded Susie as her natural ally.”

Summary from The Moving Picture World · 24 September 1910

What the papers said

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“Sometimes unreasoning jealousy receives its just deserts and when a wife creates as much disturbance as the one here depicted perhaps the unfortunate husband is justified in eloping with the homeliest girl he can find who will go with him. Anyhow, the ill-visaged stenographer was the unfortunate man’s friend and helped him escape from the unpleasantness which surrounded at home.”

The Moving Picture World · 8 October 1910

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24 September 1910The Moving Picture World1 min

“A Husband’s Jealous Wife is so screamingly funny that some of your afternoon patrons will come back for the night show just to see it repeated. In fact, it’ll ‘take’ so big that you will vote the whole reel the sublimist double-subject all-comedy release that ever blessed your screen.”

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Cast and crew

No cast or crew is credited in the surviving sources for this film. Bowers records the title and the release; the names did not come with them.

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More about this film

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1910 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “A Husband’s Jealous Wife”. thanhouser.org/films/a-husband-s-jealous-wife/

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