What Every Woman Knows is a 1917 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 comedy

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Fred W. Durrant and starring Hilda Trevelyan, Madge Tree

Madge Tree

-Selected filmography:* What Every Woman Knows * The Garden of Resurrection * The Silver Bridge * Won by a Head * The House of Peril * The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax...

 and Maud Yates

Maud Yates

-Selected filmography:* Jane Shore * What Every Woman Knows * Thelma * The Romance of Lady Hamilton * God's Clay * The Green Terror * Castles in Spain -External links:...

. It is an adaptation of the play What Every Woman Knows

What Every Woman Knows

What Every Woman Knows is a four-act play written by J. M. Barrie. It was first presented by the impresario Charles Frohman at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 3 September 1908...

by J.M. Barrie. A young Scottish woman has an arranged marriage with a rising politician and becomes the secret behind his success. However their relationship is threatened by the arrival of a glamarous English socialite who threatens to steal her husband away.

Partial cast

• Hilda Trevelyan - Maggie Wylie
• Maud Yates
  Maud Yates
  -Selected filmography:* Jane Shore * What Every Woman Knows * Thelma * The Romance of Lady Hamilton * God's Clay * The Green Terror * Castles in Spain -External links:...
  
   - The Comtesse
• Madge Tree
  Madge Tree
  -Selected filmography:* What Every Woman Knows * The Garden of Resurrection * The Silver Bridge * Won by a Head * The House of Peril * The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax...
  
   - Mother
• A.B. Imeson
  A.B. Imeson
  -Filmography:His first role was playing Satan in the silent film The Picture of Dorian Gray .*Bonnie Prince Charlie * The Virgin Queen * The White Shadow * The Notorious Mrs. Carrick -Portrait:...