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The Red Widow

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Genre
  
Short, Comedy, Romance

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Director
  
James Durkin

Distributor
  
Paramount Pictures


Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Writer
  
Channing Pollock
,
Hugh Ford

Release date
  
April 1916

Cast
  
Flora Zabelle Hitchcock, John Barry

Producers
  
Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky

Genres
  
Silent film, Comedy, Romance Film, Short Film

Similar movies
  
A Social Celebrity (1926), Brewsters Millions (1921), The Great Caruso (1951), Red Hair (1928), The Power and the Glory (1933)

The Red Widow is a lost 1916 silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on a 1911 Broadway musical play The Red Widow by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf and starring comedian Raymond Hitchcock. John Barrymore stars in this film in the Hitchcock part of Cicero Butts. Hitchcocks wife, Flora Zabelle, is the leading lady in this film.

This particular comedy was shot twice. The negative for the first version burned up in a nitrate fire before prints were made. This was probably the same Famous Players fire of September 11, 1915 that destroyed the first version of Mary Pickfords Esmerelda (1915). Barrymore and cast reshot the film for no salary.

Cast

  • John Barrymore - Cicero Hannibal Butts
  • Flora Zabelle Hitchcock - Anna Varvara (*as Flora Zabelle)
  • John Hendricks - Baron Strickoutvich
  • Eugene Redding - Ivan Scorpioff
  • Millard Benson - Basil Romanoff
  • George E. Mack - Popova
  • Lillian Tucker - Mrs. Butts
  • E.L. Fernandez - Captain Roman (*as Mr. Fernandez)
  • unbilled

  • John Goldsworthy - ?
  • References

    The Red Widow Wikipedia
    The Red Widow IMDb