Life's Greatest Problem

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Life's Greatest Problem | image = Life's Greatest Problem (1918) - Ad 1.jpg | caption = Advertisement for film | director = J. Stuart Blackton | producer = J. Stuart Blackton | writer = Anthony Paul Kelly (story, scenario) | starring = Mitchell Lewis<br>Rubye De Remer | cinematography = Otto Brautigan (some sources credit George Brauitgan) | studio = J. Stuart Blackton Feature Pictures | distributor = Independent Sales Corporation | released = {{film date|1918|11|3}} | runtime = 6 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''Life's Greatest Problem''''' is a 1918 American silent war drama film directed and produced by J. Stuart Blackton.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=15466|title=Detail view of Movies Page|website=Afi.com|accessdate=24 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LifesGreatestProblem1918.html|title=Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List|website=Silentera.com|accessdate=24 October 2017}}</ref>

The film exists today, preserved in the Library of Congress collection.<ref>''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' (<-book title) p. 103 c.1978 by The American Film Institute</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1986/default.html|title=Life's Greatest Problem|date=24 October 2017|website=Lcweb2.loc.gov|accessdate=24 October 2017}}</ref>

==Cast== *Mitchell Lewis as Big Steve Reardon *Rubye De Remer as Alice Webster *Gus Alexander as Little Lefty *Ida Darling as Mrs. Craig *Helen Ferguson as Miriam Craig *John P. Wade as John Craig *Eugene Strong as Dick Craig *John Goldsworthy as Frank Craig *John W. Martin as Shipyard Superintendent *Sidney D'Albrook as An Agitator *Bernard Randall as Craig's Secretary *Aubrey Beattie as Wilkins

==Production== Filming began under the working title ''Safe for Democracy''.

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==External links== {{commons category|Life's Greatest Problem}} *{{IMDb title|0009572}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Life's Greatest Problem}} Category:1918 films Category:American silent feature films Category:Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton Category:American black-and-white films Category:1910s war drama films Category:1918 drama films Category:1918 American films Category:American silent war drama films Category:1918 English-language films Category:English-language war drama films