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Widow by Proxy

0.0 50 mins Comedy   Romance   1919
Paramount Pictures  
Director(s): Walter Edwards

Release Date: 28 Sun, Sep 1919

Spinster sisters Sophronia and Angelica Pennington of Massachusetts refuse to meet Dolores, the bride of their nephew Jack, because she formerly was an actress. After Dolores receives word that Jack died at the front in France, she moves in with Gloria Grey, who barely supports herself by giving singing lessons. Soon Gloria's money dwindles and her creditors become threatening. When Dolores learns that she will inherit $5,000 from Jack's estate, she refuses to accept it out of pride, but Gloria convinces Dolores that they should go to Pennington Manor with their identities switched. Gloria impresses the aunts when she says that her godmother is a duchess. She and Jack's brother Steven fall in love, and when he is notified to report to naval duty, he proposes that they marry immediately. They then learn that Jack is alive. When Jack finds out that his wife was about to marry his brother, he starts to leave brokenhearted, but he sees the real Dolores and matters are straightened out.

Casts of Widow by Proxy

Marguerite Clark

as Gloria Grey

Agnes Vernon

as Dolores Pennington

Gertrude Norman

as Sophronia Pennington

Gertrude Claire

as Angelica Pennington

Nigel Barrie

as Lt. Steven Pennington

John Gilbert

as Jack Pennington

Al W. Filson

as Alexander P. Galloway

Rosita Marstini

as Mme. Gilligan

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