A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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A Race for a Wife
(1906) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 850 feet
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: [?] ? [the rich automobile manufacturer], [?] ? [his daughter], [?] ? [the first race driver], [?] ? [the second race driver], [?] ? [Ikey, the Jewish broom peddler]

The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America. / © 4 October 1906 by The Vitagraph Company of America [H83437]. Released October 1906. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film includes documentary views of the Vanderbilt Automobile Cup Race.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 January 2023.

References: Slide-BigV p. 174 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.