Name: An Amateur Widow
Released: 1919
Cast: Zena Keefe, Hugh Dillman, Jack Drumier, William Black, Pauline Dempsey

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Release Date

May 26, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

World Film Corp.

Distribution Company

World Film Corp.

Country

United States

Synopsis

Heiress Rhoda Canby is badgered by her eccentric relatives, Uncle Silas, Aunt Elizabeth and Cousin Hepzibah. She falls in love with writer Irving Mason, who, believing Rhoda to be the heiress' secretary, courts her as chauffeur "Henry Smith." Accompanied by her black nurse, Aunt Chloe, Rhoda runs away from home. Irving, meanwhile, is shanghaied. Upon reading the obituary of supposed suicide Irving Mason, Rhoda assumes the role of the widow and visits his hometown. There she is befriended by Irving's uncles and goes to work in the family's general store. Irving escapes his captors and surreptitiously returns home, but is surprised to find himself presumed dead and Rhoda his widow. When the family store catches fire, Irving saves Rhoda. Their true identities revealed, Rhoda and Irving marry.