The College Widow (1915 film)
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Directed byBarry O'Neil
Written byscenario Clay M. Greene
Based onThe College Widow
by George Ade
by George Ade
Produced bySigmund Lubin
| The College Widow | |
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 Scene from film | |
| Directed by | Barry O'Neil |
| Written by | scenario Clay M. Greene |
| Based on | The College Widow by George Ade |
| Produced by | Sigmund Lubin |
| Starring | Ethel Clayton |
| Cinematography | Fred Chaston |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | V-L-S-E |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The College Widow is a 1915 silent comedy drama film starring Ethel Clayton.[1] It's the first filming of George Ade's 1904 campus comedy play of the same name performed on Broadway that year. The film was made by the Lubin Manufacturing Company in Pennsylvania and is now lost.[2][3][4]
Later film adaptations of this story are The College Widow (1927), Maybe It's Love (1930), and Freshman Love (1936).
- Ethel Clayton – Jane Witherspoon
- George Soule Spencer – Billy Bolton
- Charles Brandt – Dr. Witherspoon
- Edith Ritchie – Mrs. Dalzelle
- Ferdinand Tidmarsh – Jack Larrabee
- Howard Missimer – Matty McGowan
- Clarence Elmer – Stub Talmadge
- Peter Lang – Hiram Bolton
- George Clarke – Silent Murphy
- Joseph Kaufman – Tom Pierson
- Bartley McCullum - Hiram Hicks
- Arthur Matthews - Bud Hicks
- Richard Wangermann - Dan Tibbetts (as Richard Wangemann)
- Percy Winter - Copernicus Talbott
- Ruth Bryan - Bessie Tanner
- Betty Brice - Flora Wiggins (as Rosetta Brice)
- Florence Williams - Mrs. Wiggins
