A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Widow by Proxy
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4444 feet
Directed by Walter Edwards

Cast: Marguerite Clark [Gloria Grey], Brownie Vernon [Dolores Pennington], Gertrude Norman [Sophronia Pennington], Gertrude Claire [Angelica Pennington], Nigel Barrie [Lieutenant Steven Pennington], Jack Gilbert (John Gilbert) [Jack Pennington], A.W. Filson [Alexander P. Galloway], Rosita Marstini [Madame Gilligan]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [Paramount-Artcraft Pictures]. / Produced by Adolph Zukor. Scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers, from the play Widow by Proxy by Catherine Chisholm Cushing. Assistant director, Fred Robinson. Cinematography by Hal Young and James C. Van Trees. Presented by Adolph Zukor. / © 9 August 1919 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP14074]. Released 28 September 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 November 2023.

References: Variety-19191226 p. 193 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.