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The College Widow
(1915) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels
Directed by Barry O’Neil

Cast: Charles Brandt [Doctor Witherspoon], Ethel Clayton [Jane Witherspoon], Edith Ritchie [Mrs. Dalzelle], Ferdinand Tidmarsh [Jack Larrabee], Howard Missimer [Matty McGowan], Clarence Jay Elmer [Stub Talmadge], Peter Lang [Hiram Bolton], George Soule Spencer [Billy Bolton], George Clarke [Silent Murphy], Joseph Kaufman [Tom Pierson], Bartley McCullum [Hiram Hicks], Arthur Matthews [Bud Hicks], Richard Wangemann [Dan Tibbetts], Percy Winter [Copernicus Talbott], Ruth Bryan [Bessie Tanner], Rosetta Brice [Flora Wiggins], Florence Williams [Mrs. Wiggins]

Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated. / Scenario by Clay M. Greene, from the play The College Widow by George Ade. Cinematography by Fred Chaston. / © 4 May 1915 by Lubin Manufacturing Company [LP5219]. Released 10 May 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as The College Widow (1927).

Comedy-Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0749.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 21 October 2011.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0749; Slide-Early p. 21.