A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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An American Widow
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Frank Reicher

Cast: Ethel Barrymore [Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Carter], Irving Cummings [Jasper Mallory], Dudley Hawley (H. Dudley Hawley) [Earl of Dettminster], Ernest Stallard [Augustus Tucker], Charles Dickson [Theodore Bacon], Alfred Kappler [Pitney Carter], Arthur Lewis [Carstairs], Pearl Browne [Madame Albani], George A. Wright Jr. (George Wright) [the county judge]

Metro Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro Wonderplay]. / Scenario by Albert Shelby Le Vino; from the play An American Widow by Kellett Chambers (Henry Kellett Chambers). Production supervision by Maxwell Karger. Electrical director, Frank Detering. Assistant director, J.J. Dunne. Cinematography by [?] George Webber and/or William H. Tuers? / © 11 December 1917 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP11823]. Released 17 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 13 September 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.