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The College Widow is a american film of genre Comedy-drama with Ethel Clayton
The College Widow (1915)
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Add to a movie listThe College Widow is a 1915 silent film starring Ethel Clayton. It's the first filming of George Ade's 1904 campus comedy performed on Broadway that year. The film was made by the Lubin Company in Pennsylvania and is now lost.
Later films of this story are The College Widow (1927), Maybe It's Love(1930) and Freshman Love(1936)
Actors
Ethel Clayton
(Jane Witherspoon)
Joseph Kaufman
(Tom Pierson)
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