Nobody's Widow
| Nobody's Widow | |
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| Directed by | Donald Crisp |
| Written by | |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
Production company | DeMille Pictures Corporation |
| Distributed by | Producers Distributing Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
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][2]
Plot
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
Preservation
Nobody's Widow is currently presumed lost.[3] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[4]
References
- ^ The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism p.350
- ^ "Nobody's Widow". afi.com. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
- ^ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Nobody's Widow". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved April 11, 2026.
- ^ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 11, 2026.
Bibliography
- James Fisher & Felicia Hardison Londré. The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.