The College Widow (1915 film)

The College Widow
Scene from film
Directed by	Barry O'Neil
Based on	The College Widow by George Ade
Produced by	Sigmund Lubin
Starring	Ethel Clayton
Cinematography	Fred Chaston
Distributed by	Lubin Manufacturing Company
Release date	May 10, 1915 (1915-05-10)
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English titles)

The College Widow is a 1915 silent 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 Company in Pennsylvania and is now lost.[2][3][4]

Later films of this story are The College Widow (1927), Maybe It's Love (1930) and Freshman Love (1936).

Cast

• 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

References

1. AFI Catalog:The College Widow
2. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Great Divide
3. Condon, Mabel (22 May 1915). Lubin's "The College Widow" (review), Motography, pp. 829–30
4. (17 April 1915). "The College Widow" (review), Motion Picture News, p. 67

External links

• The College Widow at IMDb