An American Widow (1917)
52m
Running Time
December 17, 1917Release Date
Plot.
Wealthy American widow Elizabeth Carter plans to marry the Earl of Dettminster when lawyer Augustus Tucker informs her of a codicil in her late husband's will. The Carter fortune will go to nephew Pitney Carter, who is in love with Elizabeth, if her second husband is not an American. Elizabeth therefore pays penniless playwright Jasper Mallory $50,000 to marry her and schemes with actress Mme. Albani to provide grounds for divorce so that she may then make the earl her third husband.
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Cast & Crew.
Ethel Barrymore
Elizabeth Carter
Irving Cummings
Jasper Mallory
H. Dudley Hawley
Earl of Dettminster (as Dudley Hawley)
Ernest Stallard
Augustus Tucker
Charles Dickson
Theodore Bacon
Alfred Kappeler
Pitney Carter (as Alfred Kappler)
Arthur Lewis
Carstairs
Pearl Browne
Mme. Albani
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
marriage of convenience
lost film
Wiki.
An American Widow is a 1917 silent comedy film directed by Frank Reicher and starring Ethel Barrymore. It is based on a 1909 play by Kellett Chambers. Metro Pictures produced and distributed.