How Could You, Jean?

1918 US film directed by William Desmond Taylor
Movie film Q2250631
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How Could You, Jean?

Summary

How Could You, Jean? is a film[1]. How Could You, Jean? ranks in the top 4% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • How Could You, Jean?'s instance of is recorded as film[3].
  • How Could You, Jean? was directed by William Desmond Taylor[4].
  • Frances Marion wrote the screenplay for How Could You, Jean?[5].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s genre is comedy drama[6].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s genre is silent film[7].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s genre is drama film[8].
  • A cast member of How Could You, Jean? was Mary Pickford[9].
  • A cast member of How Could You, Jean? was Casson Ferguson[10].
  • A cast member of How Could You, Jean? was Spottiswoode Aitken[11].
  • A cast member of How Could You, Jean? was Herbert Standing[12].
  • A cast member of How Could You, Jean? was ZaSu Pitts[13].
  • A cast member of How Could You, Jean? was Lucille Ward[14].
  • How Could You, Jean? was produced by Mary Pickford[15].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s director of photography is recorded as Charles Rosher[16].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s Commons category is recorded as How Could You, Jean?[17].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s color is recorded as black-and-white[18].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s country of origin is recorded as United States[19].
  • How Could You, Jean? was released on January 1, 1918[20].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s distributed by is recorded as Paramount Pictures[21].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'How Could You, Jean?'}[22].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s copyright status is recorded as public domain[23].
  • How Could You, Jean?'s state of transmission is recorded as lost[24].

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Authorship and Creation

How Could You, Jean? was produced by Mary Pickford[15]. How Could You, Jean? was directed by William Desmond Taylor[4]. Frances Marion wrote the screenplay for How Could You, Jean?[5]. Cast members include Mary Pickford[9], Casson Ferguson[10], Spottiswoode Aitken[11], Herbert Standing[12], ZaSu Pitts[13], and Lucille Ward[14].

Publication

How Could You, Jean? was released on January 1, 1918[20]. Genres include comedy drama[6], silent film[7], and drama film[8].

Why It Matters

How Could You, Jean? ranks in the top 4% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).[2] How Could You, Jean? has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] How Could You, Jean? is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Producer → Mary Pickford
    Filmová databáze film id → 190001
    State of transmission → lost
    Distributed by → Paramount Pictures
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P12879]]: 190001, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269266|batch #269266]]"
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