An American Widow Trailer

An American Widow Trailer (1917)

17 December 1917 Drama, Comedy 52 mins

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

Ethel Barrymore

as Elizabeth Carter

Irving Cummings

as Jasper Mallory

H. Dudley Hawley

as Earl of Dettminster (as Dudley Hawley)

Ernest Stallard

as Augustus Tucker

Charles Dickson

as Theodore Bacon

Alfred Kappeler

as Pitney Carter (as Alfred Kappler)

Arthur Lewis

as Carstairs

Pearl Browne

as Mme. Albani

Crew

Henry K. Chambers

Henry K. Chambers Theatre Play

Maxwell Karger

Maxwell Karger Supervisor of Production Resources

International Releases Dates

United States 17 December 1917

Production Companies

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