{{short description|1917 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2018}} {{Infobox film | name = The Neglected Wife | image = The Neglected Wife 2.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = William Bertram | producer = | writer = Joseph Dunn<br>Will M. Ritchey | based_on = {{Based on|''The Journal of a Neglected Wife''<br>''The Woman Alone''|Mabel Herbert Urner|}} | starring = Ruth Roland<br>Roland Bottomley | music = | cinematography = | editing = | production_companies = Balboa Amusement Producing Company | distributor = Pathé Exchange | released = {{film date|1917|5|13}} | runtime = 15 episodes | country = United States | language = Silent with English intertitles }}

'''''The Neglected Wife''''' is a 1917 American drama film serial directed by William Bertram.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/N/NeglectedWife1917.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Neglected Wife'' |access-date=February 21, 2008|work=silentera.com}}</ref>

==Cast== * Ruth Roland as Margaret Warner * Roland Bottomley as Horace Kennedy<ref name=hays2017>{{cite news |title=The Neglected Wife |author=Staff Writer |date=October 27, 1917 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/187033437/ |newspaper=The Hays Free Press |location=Hays, Kansas}}</ref> * Corinne Grant as Mary Kennedy * Neil Hardin as Edgar Doyle (as Neil C. Hardin) * Philo McCullough as Frank Norwood * Mollie McConnell

==Episodes== The serial consisted of fifteen two reel episodes,<ref name="copyright1916">{{cite journal|author=U.S. Copyright Office|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Part 1, Group 2|url=https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyr131libr#page/1455 |series=New Series |volume=13 |number=12 |year=1916 |publisher=The Library of Congress |location=Washington, D.C. |page=1455}}</ref><ref name="copyright1917">{{cite journal|author=U.S. Copyright Office|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Part 1, Group 2|url=https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyri141libr#page/565 |series=New Series |volume=14 |number=5 |year=1917 |publisher=The Library of Congress |location=Washington, D.C. |page=565}}</ref> released from May 13 to August 5, 1917:

{{div col}} #The Woman Alone #Weakening #In the Crucible #Beyond Recall #Under Suspicion #On the Precipice #The Message on the Mirror #A Relentless Fate #Deepening Degradation #A Veiled Intrigue #A Reckless Indiscretion #Embittered Love #Revolting Pride #Desperation #A Sacrifice Supreme {{div col end}}

==Reception== Like many American films of the time, ''The Neglected Wife'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required these cuts in these three episodes: Episode 11, throwing brick down on man, stealing key from rack, stealing letters, and throwing man into burning house; Episode 12, the intertitle "Or I will have you ejected by complaining that you are what you are -"; and Episode 13, thugs shooting from boat, two holdup scenes, attack on girl and gagging, shooting from window, and the intertitles "We must get the girl - to go back to him", "You have ruined Margaret Warner and the Veiled Woman", and "You will return to Kennedy or -".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=5 |issue=14 |page=33 |date=September 29, 1917 |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald05exhi#page/n681/mode/1up}}</ref>

==See also== * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category}} *{{IMDb title|id=0008366|title=The Neglected Wife}} *{{Internet Archive|id=journalaneglect00urnegoog|name=''The Journal of a Neglected Wife''}} *{{Internet Archive|id=womanalone00urneiala|name=''The Woman Alone''}}

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