Somebody's Widow
About Somebody's Widow
At the beach, Billie bets a friend that the haughty playwright Jack Random will be on his knees before night. She dresses as a young widow to draw his sympathy. The friend tells Jack's secretary, Billy, and Jack hears the plan. He dresses the secretary as a sailor and springs him on Billie as her supposedly dead husband. The disguise collapses. She pays the bet. Jack wants her anyway.
Cast & crew
More about Somebody's Widow
Scott Sidney directed. Charles Jarvis wrote the story. Harry M. Fowler photographed it. Mutual released the one-reel Strand Mutual Comedy on January 29, 1918. Billie Rhodes plays Billie, Cullen Landis plays Jack Random, and Billy Bevan plays Random's secretary.
Themes
Making
The gag is a double disguise. Billie's weeds are a costume, and Jack's answer is another costume: his own secretary as the dead husband.
Look
Harry M. Fowler photographed the beach meeting and the widow disguise.
Preservation
An incomplete 35mm print with Dutch intertitles is at the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
Notes
- It is a Caulfield Photoplay, not a Triangle film. Mutual distributed it.
- The EYE Filmmuseum holds an incomplete 35mm print with Dutch intertitles.
- Bevan, later a Mack Sennett regular, plays the secretary who is stuffed into a sailor suit.
Scenes
- Billie puts on mourning and cries where Jack Random will see her.
- Jack produces a sailor and tells her the husband has come back.
- She pays the friend, then ends up with Jack.
Also available
- EYE Filmmuseum (incomplete 35mm, Dutch intertitles)
- Internet Archive (15209_1411113258_s01_Somebodys_Widow)
