Wanted: A Husband

{{short description|1919 comedy silent film directed by Lawrence Clement Windom}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox film | name = Wanted: A Husband | image = Billie Burke in Wanted a Husband by Lawrence Windom Film Daily 1920.png | caption = Advertisement for the film | director = Lawrence C. Windom | producer = {{Plainlist| *Adolph Zukor *Jesse Lasky }} | based_on = {{based on|"Enter D'Arcy"|Samuel Hopkins Adams}} | writer = Clara Beranger (scenario) | starring = Billie Burke | cinematography = Roy Overbaugh | editing = | distributor = Paramount-Artcraft Pictures | released = {{film date|1919|12|28}} | runtime = 5 reels; 4,596 feet | country = United States | language = {{Plainlist| *Silent *English intertitles }} }} '''''Wanted: A Husband''''' is a 1919 American silent comedy film starring Billie Burke. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount-Artcraft.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170712162337/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=17613 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Wanted - A Husband''](Wayback)</ref> The film is based on the short story "Enter D'Arcy" by Samuel Hopkins Adams. The relatively unknown Lawrence C. Windom directed this lost film.

==Plot== As described in a film magazine,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''Wanted: A Husband'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=10 |issue=3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald10exhi/page/81 81] |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=January 17, 1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald10exhi}}</ref> Amanda "Darcy" Cole is a normal young woman with a pleasing personality who, strangely enough, has no suitors. Her friends announce their engagements from time to time and each announcement giving her added cause for alarm. Gloria Green, an ardent physical culturist, tells Darcy where she is lax and she immediately begins training to improve her appearance. In the meantime she feigns an engagement with an unidentified Englishman. Her friends are invited to the country home of Tom Harmon to spend their honeymoons. To the surprise of all, Darcy shows up with her Englishman, who in time is identified as the very American cousin of one of her friends. This leads to a happy ending.

==Cast== *Billie Burke as Amanda Darcy Cole *James Crane as Jack Remsen *Margaret Linden as Gloria Green *Charles Lane as Tom Harmon *Edward Lester as Paul Wood *Bradley Barker as Holcomb Lee *Helen Greene as Maude Raynes *Gypsy O'Brien as Helen Bartlett *Kid Broad as Andy Dunn *Mrs. Priestly Morrison as Veronica (aka Mary Florence Horne)<ref>[http://www.ibdb.com/Person/View/53832 Mrs. Priestly Morrison; IBDb.com]</ref> *Frank Goldsmith as Hiram

==Preservation== With no prints of ''Wanted: A Husband'' located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.<ref>[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10314/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Wanted: A Husband'']</ref><ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/W/WantedAHusband1919.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Wanted: A Husband''] at silentera.com</ref>

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==External links== {{commons category|Wanted: A Husband}} *{{IMDb title|0010856}} *[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PC5UPDnTCio/VTcAsNWcXHI/AAAAAAAABvw/zBPHZwRCoXM/s1600/wanted%2Ba%2Bhusband.JPG Coming attractions lantern slide to ''Wanted: A Husband''] *[http://emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/1229245.html lobby poster]

Category:1919 films Category:American silent feature films Category:1919 English-language films Category:Famous Players–Lasky films Category:1919 comedy films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1919 lost films Category:Films directed by Lawrence C. Windom Category:1919 American films Category:Lost American silent comedy films Category:English-language comedy films