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Should She Obey?

American 1917 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ102036248 ↗
Source-derived summary

Should She Obey? is an American film released in 1917. It was produced by the Arizona Film Company of Chicago. George Siegmann directed and appears in the film. It is considered a lost film.

The plot about a man who becomes successful leading a mining business and his wife has moralistic overtones. A showgirl steals his love.

Barratt O'Hara served as president of Arizona Film Company.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Should She Obey?” is american 1917 film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Should, Obey and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Should, Obey and American is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “american 1917 film” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q102036248. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1917.

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This entry incorporates text from “Should She Obey?” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.