An American Widow

An American Widow

Drama, Comedy | Dec. 17, 1917

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.

An American Widow

Drama, Comedy | Dec. 17, 1917

An American Widow
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.
Producers Metro Pictures Corporation
Original title An American Widow
Directors Frank Reicher
Writers Henry K. Chambers, Albert S. Le Vino

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