Nobody's Widow
Nobody's Widow is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp and starring Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray and Phyllis Haver. It is an adaptation of a 1910 play of the same title by Avery Hopwood.[1]
| Nobody's Widow | |
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| Directed by | Donald Crisp |
| Written by | Clara Beranger Douglas Z. Doty Avery Hopwood (play) |
| Starring | Leatrice Joy Charles Ray Phyllis Haver |
| Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
Production company | DeMille Pictures Corporation |
| Distributed by | Producers Distributing Corporation |
Release date | January 12, 1927 |
Running time | 67 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent English intertitles |
After discovering that her husband has been unfaithful to her, an upper-class English woman moves to America to stay with a friends and pretends to have been widowed and attracts several suitors. Things become complicated when her husband arrives and courts her using an alias.
Cast
- Leatrice Joy as Roxanna Smith
- Charles Ray as Honorable John Clayton
- Phyllis Haver as Betty Jackson
- David Butler as Ned Stevens
- Dot Farley as Roxanna's Maid
- Fritzi Ridgeway as Mademoiselle Renée
- Charles West as Valet
References
- The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism p.350
Bibliography
- James Fisher & Felicia Hardison Londré. The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
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