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1919 film by John S. Robertson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Misleading Widow (1919) is a silent film comedy directed by John S. Robertson and starring Billie Burke. The film is based on the play Billeted by F. Tennyson Jesse and H. M. Harwood and was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.[1]
The Misleading Widow | |
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Directed by | John S. Robertson |
Written by | F. Tennyson Jesse (play) H. M. Hardwood (play) Frances Marion (scenario) |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky |
Starring | Billie Burke |
Cinematography | Roy Overbaugh |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures/Artcraft |
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Running time | 5 reels |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent film (English intertitles) |
As it is not known whether the film currently survives,[2] it is likely that it, similar to most of Burke's silent films, is a lost film.[3]
As summarized in an adaptation published in the September 1919 issue of Shadowlands,[4] Betty Taradine, who lives in a British village near an army base, was abandoned by her husband for her spendthrift ways. She reports that he is dead to obtain insurance money. Later, British officer Captain Peter Rymill is assigned to be billeted at her house, but he turns out to be her husband living under an assumed name. There are various romantic triangles involving other villagers, and the identity of the missing husband and existence of the marriage is revealed after a dinner with the guests gathered in the widow's bedroom.
The setting of the film is in England as the Third Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the quartering of soldiers in a person's home without their consent.
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