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The Misleading Widow is a american film of genre Comedy directed by John S. Robertson released in USA on 7 september 1919 with Billie Burke

The Misleading Widow (1919)

The Misleading Widow
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Released in USA 7 september 1919
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OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating56% 2.8176452.8176452.8176452.8176452.817645

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.

As the survival status of The Misleading Widow is listed as unknown, it is likely that it, similar to most of Burke's silent films, is a lost film.

Synopsis

As summarized in an adaptation published in the September 1919 issue of Shadowlands, Betty Taradine, who lives in a British village near a 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.

Actors

Billie Burke

(Betty Taradine)Madelyn Clare

(Penelope Moon)Fred Esmelton

(Mr. MacFarland)
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