Our Wives (film)

{{short description|1913 film}}

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| name = Our Wives

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| director = James Lackaye

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| writer = Anthony E. Wills

| starring = Harry T. Morey
Louise Beaudet

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| distributor = Vitagraph Studios

| released = {{Film date|1913|09|20}}

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| country = United States

| language = silent film
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Our Wives is a 1913 comedy short silent film directed by James Lackaye for Vitagraph Studios.{{cite book|title=The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company|page=236|first=Anthony|last= Slide|first2= Alan|last2= Gevinson|year=1987|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810820302}} It premiered on September 20, 1913.{{cite journal|title="Our Wives"|work=The Moving Picture World|page=49|date=October 4, 1913|volume=18|number=1}} The film's story was adapted from Anthony E. Wills's three act play Our Wives (1910). Wills was a playwright and novelist who died young in 1912.{{cite journal|title=Obituary: Anthony E. Wills|work=Variety|date=August 2, 1912|volume= 27|issue= 9|page=15}} Vitagraph Studios purchased the film rights to all of Wills's works in 1913.{{cite journal|title=Film Co. Feeling Around; Trying Hard to Be Friendly|work=Variety|page=8|date=May 23, 1913|volume=30|issue= 12}}