Marrying Widows is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Judith Allen, Johnny Mack Brown and Minna Gombell.[1]

Marrying Widows
Directed bySam Newfield
Written byAdele Buffington
Produced bySigmund Neufeld
Leslie Simmonds
StarringJudith Allen
Johnny Mack Brown
Minna Gombell
CinematographyHarry Forbes
Production
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Tower Productions
Distributed byCapitol Film Exchange
Release date
  • May 18, 1934 (1934-05-18)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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After the death of her sewing machine tycoon husband, a young woman is cold-shouldered by her grasping in-laws. She heads to New York City and meets a man, falls in love and gets married. Unknown to her her new husband is after what he thinks to be her fortune, in revenge for the theft of his father's patents that made the sewing machine profits. Discovering that she is in fact penniless, they both reconcile.

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References

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  1. ^ Parish & Pitts, p. 286

Bibliography

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  • Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R. Film directors: a guide to their American films. Scarecrow Press, 1974.
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