Golf Widows

{{short description|1928 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Golf Widows | image = Golf Widows.jpg | caption = | director = [[Erle C. Kenton]] | producer = [[Harry Cohn]] | writer = [[Scott Darling (writer)|Scott Darling]] | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Vera Reynolds]]|[[Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|Harrison Ford]]|[[Sally Rand]]}} | music = | cinematography = [[Arthur L. Todd]] | editing = | studio = [[Columbia Pictures]] | distributor = Columbia Pictures | released = {{film date|1928|5|1}} | runtime = 56 minutes | country = [[United States]] | language = [[Silent film|Silent]]<br>[[English language|English]] [[intertitle]]s | budget = | gross = }} '''''Golf Widows''''' is a [[1928 in film|1928]] [[United States|American]] [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Erle C. Kenton]] and starring [[Vera Reynolds]], [[Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|Harrison Ford]] and [[Sally Rand]].<ref>Munden p.305</ref>

==Cast== *[[Vera Reynolds]] as Alice Anderson *[[Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|Harrison Ford]] as Charles Bateman *[[John Patrick (actor)|John Patrick]] as Billy Gladstone *[[Sally Rand]] as Mary Ward *[[Kathleen Key]] as Ethel Dixon *[[Vernon Dent]] as Ernest Ward *[[Will Stanton (actor)|Will Stanton]] as John Dixon

==Production== On March 9, 1927, [[Columbia Pictures]] announced in ''[[The Film Daily]]'' that ''Golf Widows'' was being put into production.<ref>{{cite journal|date=March 9, 1927|title=Announcement!|url=https://archive.org/details/filmdaily3940newy/page/474/|journal=The Film Daily|volume=39|issue=57|pages=8|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Some contemporary trade publications list Henry Clayton Cooper as the story writer,<ref>{{cite journal|date=April 9, 1927|title=Columbia's "The Perfect Thirty" Announced for 1927-28 Season|url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor85marm/page/568/|journal=Moving Picture World|volume=85|issue=6|pages=569|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> but the copyright description only lists W. Scott Darling as author.<ref>{{cite web|date=1928|title=Golf Widows. Motion picture copyright descriptions collection. Class L, 1912-1977.|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/cdmmi.s1229l25310/|access-date=May 1, 2026|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>

Vera Reynolds, Harrison Ford, and Sally Rand were all under contract with DeMille Pictures Corporation at the time, and were loaned to Columbia out for ''Golf Widows''.<ref>{{cite journal|date=March 24, 1928|title=Three De Mille Players to Act in a Columbia Film|url=https://archive.org/details/motionnew37moti/page/n971/|journal=Motion Picture News|volume=37|issue=12|pages=956|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

==Preservation and status== Complete copies of the film are held at the [[Cinematek|Cinematheque Royale de Belgique]] and the [[Library of Congress]].<ref>{{cite web|date=|title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Golf Widows|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.733/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101030300/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.733/|archive-date=2023-11-01|access-date=2025-09-06|website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== *Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0018949}}

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