# Golf Widows > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Golf_Widows > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Golf_Widows.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_Widows > Source revision: 1352183014 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1928 film Golf Widows Directed by Erle C. Kenton Written by Scott Darling Produced by Harry Cohn Starring Vera Reynolds Harrison Ford Sally Rand Cinematography Arthur L. Todd Production company Columbia Pictures Distributed by Columbia Pictures Release date May 1, 1928 (1928-05-01) Running time 56 minutes Country United States Languages Silent English intertitles ***Golf Widows*** is a [1928](/source/1928_in_film) [American](/source/United_States) [silent](/source/Silent_film) [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [Erle C. Kenton](/source/Erle_C._Kenton) and starring [Vera Reynolds](/source/Vera_Reynolds), [Harrison Ford](/source/Harrison_Ford_(silent_film_actor)) and [Sally Rand](/source/Sally_Rand).[1] ## Cast - [Vera Reynolds](/source/Vera_Reynolds) as Alice Anderson - [Harrison Ford](/source/Harrison_Ford_(silent_film_actor)) as Charles Bateman - [John Patrick](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Patrick_(actor)&action=edit&redlink=1) as Billy Gladstone - [Sally Rand](/source/Sally_Rand) as Mary Ward - [Kathleen Key](/source/Kathleen_Key) as Ethel Dixon - [Vernon Dent](/source/Vernon_Dent) as Ernest Ward - [Will Stanton](/source/Will_Stanton_(actor)) as John Dixon ## Production On March 9, 1927, [Columbia Pictures](/source/Columbia_Pictures) announced in *[The Film Daily](/source/The_Film_Daily)* that *Golf Widows* was being put into production.[2] Some contemporary trade publications list Henry Clayton Cooper as the story writer,[3] but the copyright description only lists W. Scott Darling as author.[4] 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*.[5] ## Preservation and status Complete copies of the film are held at the [Cinematheque Royale de Belgique](/source/Cinematek) and the [Library of Congress](/source/Library_of_Congress).[6] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Munden p.305 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Announcement!"](https://archive.org/details/filmdaily3940newy/page/474/). *The Film Daily*. **39** (57): 8. March 9, 1927 – via Internet Archive. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Columbia's "The Perfect Thirty" Announced for 1927-28 Season"](https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor85marm/page/568/). *Moving Picture World*. **85** (6): 569. April 9, 1927 – via Internet Archive. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Golf Widows. Motion picture copyright descriptions collection. Class L, 1912-1977"](https://www.loc.gov/resource/cdmmi.s1229l25310/). *Library of Congress*. 1928. Retrieved May 1, 2026. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Three De Mille Players to Act in a Columbia Film"](https://archive.org/details/motionnew37moti/page/n971/). *Motion Picture News*. **37** (12): 956. March 24, 1928 – via Internet Archive. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Golf Widows"](https://web.archive.org/web/20231101030300/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.733/). *memory.loc.gov*. Archived from [the original](http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.733/) on November 1, 2023. Retrieved September 6, 2025. ## 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 - [*Golf Widows*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018949/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Erle C. Kenton Salome vs. Shenandoah (1919) Down on the Farm (1920) Love, Honor and Behave (1920) A Small Town Idol (1921) A Fool and His Money (1925) The Danger Signal (1925) Red Hot Tires (1925) The Love Toy (1926) Other Women's Husbands (1926) The Sap (1926) The Palm Beach Girl (1926) The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1927) The Girl in the Pullman (1927) Bare Knees (1928) Name the Woman (1928) Nothing to Wear (1928) Companionate Marriage (1928) Golf Widows (1928) The Street of Illusion (1928) The Sideshow (1928) The Sporting Age (1928) Trial Marriage (1929) Father and Son (1929) Song of Love (1929) Mexicali Rose (1929) A Royal Romance (1930) X Marks the Spot (1931) Left Over Ladies (1931) The Last Parade (1931) Guilty as Hell (1932) Island of Lost Souls (1932) From Hell to Heaven (1933) Disgraced! (1933) Big Executive (1933) Search for Beauty (1934) You're Telling Me! (1934) Party Wire (1935) The Best Man Wins (1935) The Public Menace (1935) Devil's Squadron (1936) Counterfeit (1936) She Asked for It (1937) The Devil's Playground (1937) Little Tough Guys in Society (1938) The Lady Objects (1938) Everything's on Ice (1939) Escape to Paradise (1939) Remedy for Riches (1940) Petticoat Politics (1941) Melody for Three (1941) Naval Academy (1941) They Meet Again (1941) Flying Cadets (1941) North to the Klondike (1942) The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Frisco Lil (1942) Pardon My Sarong (1942) Who Done It? (1942) It Ain't Hay (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) She Gets Her Man (1945) House of Dracula (1945) The Cat Creeps (1946) Little Miss Big (1946) Bob and Sally (1948) One Too Many (1951) Secrets of Beauty (1951) This article related to an American silent comedy film of the 1920s is a stub. 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