An American Widow 1917

Wealthy American widow Elizabeth Carter plans to marry the Earl of Dettminster when lawyer Augustus Tucker informs her of a codicil in her late husband's will. The Carter fortune will go to nephew Pitney Carter, who is in love with Elizabeth, if her second husband is not an American. Elizabeth therefore pays penniless playwright Jasper Mallory $50,000 to marry her and schemes with actress Mme. Albani to provide grounds for divorce so that she may then make the earl her third husband.

Cast:

Ethel Barrymore
Elizabeth Carter 

Irving Cummings
Jasper Mallory 

H. Dudley Hawley
Earl of Dettminster (as Dudley Hawley) 

Ernest Stallard
Augustus Tucker 

Charles Dickson
Theodore Bacon 

Alfred Kappeler
Pitney Carter (as Alfred Kappler)