The Flirting Widow (1930)

Director
William A. Seiter

Main cast
Dorothy Mackaill; Basil Rathbone; Leila Hyams; Claude Gillingwater; Emily Fitzroy

Genres
Romance, Comedy

Description
A stern father insists his older daughter must have a husband first before her younger sister can marry, so the elder sibling creates a fictitious fiancé, who she then announces has been killed. No one is more surprised than older sis, however, when her dead, imaginary sweetheart comes knocking at the door. Comedy.


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