Nobody's Widow

Nobody's Widow
Nobody's Widow
Directed by	Donald Crisp
Written by	Clara Beranger; Douglas Z. Doty; Avery Hopwood (play);
Starring	Leatrice Joy; Charles Ray; Phyllis Haver;
Cinematography	Arthur C. Miller
Production; company	DeMille Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	January 12, 1927;
Running time	67 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent ; English intertitles

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.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.^[4]

References

↑ The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism p.350
↑ "Nobody's Widow". afi.com. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Nobody's Widow". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved April 11, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).
↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 11, 2026.

Bibliography

James Fisher & Felicia Hardison Londré. The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

External links

Nobody's Widow at IMDb

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[1] The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism p.350

[2] "Nobody's Widow". afi.com. Retrieved March 21, 2024.

[3] "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Nobody's Widow". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved April 11, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).

[Lost_U.S._Silent_Feature_Films-4] "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 11, 2026.

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