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.The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism p.350
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. In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.
References
Bibliography James Fisher & Felicia Hardison Londré. The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
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