The College Widow (1915 film) explained

The College Widow
Director:	Barry O'Neil
Producer:	Sigmund Lubin
Starring:	Ethel Clayton
Cinematography:	Fred Chaston
Distributor:	Lubin Manufacturing Company
Runtime:	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

Notes and References

1. http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=16434 AFI Catalog:The College Widow
2. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4364/default.html 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