The College Widow
Cast & Crew
Barry O'neil
Charles Brandt
Ethel Clayton
Edith Ritchie
Ferdinand Tidmarsh
Howard Missimer
Film Details
Synopsis
Presbyterian Atwater College continually loses in football to its neighboring Midwestern rival, Baptist Bingham College. When millionaire Hiram Bolton brings his son Billy, the star half-back of the Bingham football team, to Atwater in search of a tutor, coach Jack Larrabee persuades Jane Witherspoon, the president's daughter, called the "College Widow" because each graduation day she bids farewell to another fiancé, to charm Billy into playing for Atwater. The plan succeeds, but Jane, once Jack's sweetheart, falls in love with Billy. Following an important Thanksgiving Day victory over Bingham, Billy is told that he has been Jane's dupe. He plans to leave town, but during a celebration, a fire breaks out. Billy is injured leaping from a window, while Jane is left trapped on a stairway. When the firemen block Jack's entrance, objecting that it is too dangerous for him to save Jane, Jack has his squad form a flying wedge and he breaks through. Jack rescues Jane and places her in Billy's arms.
Director
Barry O'neil
Cast
Charles Brandt
Ethel Clayton
Edith Ritchie
Ferdinand Tidmarsh
Howard Missimer
Clarence Jay Elmer
Peter Lang
George Soule Spencer
George Clarke
Joseph Kaufman
Bartley Mccullum
Arthur Matthews
Richard Wangemann
Percy Winter
Ruth Bryan
Rosetta Brice
Florence Williams
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Notes
Another film made from this play was produced by Warner Bros. in 1927. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.0971.) Some scenes in this film were shot at a Pennsylvania college campus.
