The Prodigal Wife is a lost[1] 1918 American silent drama film directed by Frank Reicher and starring Mary Boland.

[2] As described in a film magazine,[3] Dr. Frederick Farnham (Bloomer) and his wife Marion (Boland) live a precarious existence in a cheap boarding house.

Dr. Farnham returns home to tell his wife that their days of poverty are over as he has obtained a position on the staff of a hospital, but finds that he and his four-year-old daughter Marna have been deserted.

Years later, driven to extreme poverty, the mother determines to seek her husband out to obtain some relief.

Adroitly she finds out that Marna worships her "dead" mother, and Marion leaves, determined to sin no more.