''Marrying Widows'' is a 1934 American
pre-Code
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drama film
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directed by
Sam Newfield
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and starring
Judith Allen
Judith Allen (born Marie Elliott, February 8, 1911 – October 5, 1996) was an American actress.
Early years
Allen was born Marie Elliot in New York City, and she grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts. She attended Leland Powers School in Bos ...
,
Johnny Mack Brown
John Brown (September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974) was an American college football player and film actor billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career. He acted and starred mainly in Western (genre), Western films.
Early lif ...
and
Minna Gombell
Minna Marie Gombell (''née'' Gombel; May 28, 1892 – April 14, 1973) was an American stage and film actress.
Early years
She was born Minna Marie Gombel in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of William and Emma M. Debring Gombel. Her father ...
.
[Parish & Pitts, p. 286]
Synopsis
After the death of her
sewing machine
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tycoon
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husband, a young woman is cold-shouldered by her grasping in-laws. She heads to
New York City
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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
patent
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s that made the sewing machine profits. Discovering that she is in fact penniless, they both reconcile.
Cast
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Judith Allen
Judith Allen (born Marie Elliott, February 8, 1911 – October 5, 1996) was an American actress.
Early years
Allen was born Marie Elliot in New York City, and she grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts. She attended Leland Powers School in Bos ...
as The Widow
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Johnny Mack Brown
John Brown (September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974) was an American college football player and film actor billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career. He acted and starred mainly in Western (genre), Western films.
Early lif ...
as The Husband
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Minna Gombell
Minna Marie Gombell (''née'' Gombel; May 28, 1892 – April 14, 1973) was an American stage and film actress.
Early years
She was born Minna Marie Gombel in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of William and Emma M. Debring Gombel. Her father ...
as The Press Agent
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Lucien Littlefield
Lucien Littlefield (August 16, 1895 – June 4, 1960) was an American actor who achieved a long career from silent films to the television era. He was noted for his versatility, playing a wide range of roles and already portraying old men befor ...
as The Brother-In-Law
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Bert Roach
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Selected filmogra ...
as The Husband's Partner
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Sarah Padden
Sarah Ann Padden (16 October 1881 – 4 December 1967) was an English-born American theatre and film character actress. She performed on stage in the early 20th century. Her best-known single-act performance was in ''The Clod'', a stage pro ...
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Virginia Sale
Virginia Sale (May 20, 1899 – August 23, 1992) was an American character actress whose career spanned six decades, during most of which she played older women, even when she was in her twenties. Over the 46 years she was active as an actr ...
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Nat Carr
Nat Carr (August 12, 1886 – July 6, 1944) was an American character actor of the silent and early talking picture eras. During his eighteen-year career, Carr appeared in over 100 films, most of them features.
Life and career
Carr was born ...
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Arthur Hoyt
Arthur Hoyt (March 19, 1874 – January 4, 1953) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films.
Career
Born in Georgetown, Colorado, in 1874, Hoyt ma ...
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Otto Hoffman
Otto F. Hoffman (May 2, 1879 – June 23, 1944) was an American film actor. He appeared in almost 200 films between 1915 and 1944. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California, from lung cancer.
Hoffman's Broadway credit ...
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Syd Saylor
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Gladys Blake
Gladys Blake (born Gladys Timmons, May 12, 1910 – May 21, 1983) was an American character actress from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Biography
Blake was born on January 12, 1910 in Luray, Virginia. Her mother, Ada Timmons, died when Gladys was l ...
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George Grandee
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References
Bibliography
*Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R. ''Film directors: a guide to their American films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974.
External links
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1934 films
1934 drama films
1930s English-language films
American drama films
Films directed by Sam Newfield
American black-and-white films
1930s American films
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