An American Widow (1917)
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
Ernest Stallard
Augustus Tucker
Alfred Kappeler
Pitney Carter (as Alfred Kappler)
Frank Reicher
Director
Arthur Lewis
Carstairs
Henry K. Chambers
Writer
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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.