The Sultan's Wife
About The Sultan's Wife
Gloria Swanson follows her sailor boyfriend Bobby Vernon to India. A sultan kidnaps her for his harem. Bobby has to get her out. The short is also known as Caught in a Harem.
Cast & crew
More about The Sultan's Wife
Clarence G. Badger directed. Mack Sennett produced. Triangle Film Corporation released it on 30 September 1917. Two reels, listed at 18 minutes. A circulating copy runs 24 minutes 29 seconds. Joseph Callahan plays the rajah. Frank Bond is billed as the prime minister. Blanche Payson is the harem matron. Teddy the Dog is in the cast, with Phyllis Haver, Gonda Durand, Roxana McGowan, Vera Steadman, and Edith Valk.
Themes
Making
Sennett's Keystone unit made it as a two-reel comedy for Triangle, with Swanson and Vernon as the couple and a studio India.
Preservation
Prints circulate, including copies on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Chicago Board of Censors cut a man on a bench wiggling after seeing dancers, the sultan falling backward with his arms and legs spread, and a man and a woman knocking into each other.
- Keystone sold the short under both The Sultan's Wife and Caught in a Harem.
Scenes
- The sultan takes Gloria for the harem.
- Bobby goes in after her.
Also available
- Internet Archive (theSultansWife1917)
- Wikimedia Commons (The Sultan's Wife1917.webm)
