The College Widow (1915 film)

The College Widow
Scene from film
Directed byBarry O'Neil
Written byscenario Clay M. Greene
Based onThe College Widow
by George Ade
Produced bySigmund Lubin
StarringEthel Clayton
CinematographyFred Chaston
Production
company
Distributed byV-L-S-E
Release date
  • May 10, 1915 (1915-05-10)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English titles)

The College Widow is a 1915 silent comedy drama film starring Ethel Clayton. It's the first filming of George Ade's 1904 campus comedy play of the same name performed on Broadway that year. The film was made by the Lubin Manufacturing Company in Pennsylvania and is now lost.

Later film adaptations of this story are The College Widow (1927), Maybe It's Love (1930), and Freshman Love (1936).