Movie

An American Widow

(en)

1917

52m

An American Widow

Comedy

Drama

Overview: 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.

Status: Released

Release date: December 17, 1917

Countries of origin: United States of America,

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Production company:
  • Metro Pictures Corporation

Top Cast

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

as Elizabeth Carte...

Irving Cummings

Irving Cummings

as Jasper Mallory

H. Dudley Hawley

H. Dudley Hawley

as Earl of Dettmin...

Ernest Stallard

Ernest Stallard

as Augustus Tucker

Charles Dickson

Charles Dickson

as Theodore Bacon

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