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The Flirting Widow (1930)

• Director
  • William A. Seiter(uncredited)
• Writers
  • A.E.W. Mason(based on the play by)
  • John F. Goodrich(scenario)
• Stars
  • Dorothy Mackaill
  • Basil Rathbone
  • Leila Hyams

  Basil Rathbone unexpectedly plays the romantic lead in The Flirting Widow. Dorothy Mackaill stars as a wealthy young lady whose father has forbidden her younger sister (Leila Hyams) to marry before Dorothy does. To help sis out, Dorothy "invents" a husband, whom she claims is a British colonel stationed in Arabia. Dorothy discovers that the man she's designated as her imaginary hubby actually exists, in the form of the nonplused Mr. Rathbone. The dilemma: Dorothy has claimed that Rathbone is deceased, a report that is greatly exaggerated. Based on the story Green Stockings by A.E.W. Mason, Flirting Widow was the remake of a silent feature titled Slightly Used (27).