An American Widow

Duration: 52 min

Release date: 1917-12-17

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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.

Comedy Drama

An American Widow

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Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

as Elizabeth Carter

Irving Cummings

Irving Cummings

as Jasper Mallory

H. Dudley Hawley

H. Dudley Hawley

as Earl of Dettminster (as Dudley Hawley)

Ernest Stallard

Ernest Stallard

as Augustus Tucker

Charles Dickson

Charles Dickson

as Theodore Bacon

Alfred Kappeler

Alfred Kappeler

as Pitney Carter (as Alfred Kappler)

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Henry K. Chambers

Henry K. Chambers

Albert S. Le Vino

Albert S. Le Vino

Supervisor of Production Resources

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