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The Flirting Widow poster

The Flirting Widow

"She's everybody's sweetheart but nobody's gal!"

57
Audience
1930 · 1h 12m
Comedy, Romance
Starring Dorothy Mackaill · Basil Rathbone · Leila Hyams
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About

An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.

Theatrical
May 11, 1930
Director
William A. Seiter
Writer
A.E.W. Mason
Producer
William A. Seiter
Studio
First National Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation
Keywords
letter sister marriage pre-code
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Cast

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D
Dorothy Mackaill
Celia
B
Basil Rathbone
Col. Smith
L
Leila Hyams
Evelyn
W
William Austin
James Raleigh
C
Claude Gillingwater
Faraday
E
Emily Fitzroy
Aunt Ida
F
Flora Bramley
Phyllis
A
Anthony Bushell
Bobby
W
Wilfred Noy
Martin
S
Sidney Bracey
The Second Butler (uncredited)

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