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 Theatre Play

Albert S. Le Vino Writer

Frank Reicher Director

Maxwell Karger Supervisor of Production Resources

International Releases Dates

United States 17 December 1917

Production Companies

Metro Pictures Corporation

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