Marrying Widows
"He wants to marry her—but only for the fortune he thinks she has."
1934 · 1h 7m Drama
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Marrying Widows
Overview
After the death of her sewing machine tycoon husband, a young woman is cold-shouldered by her grasping in-laws. She heads to New York City and meets a man, falls in love and gets married. Unknown to her, her new husband is after what he thinks to be her fortune, in revenge for the theft of his father's patents that made the sewing machine profits. Discovering that she is in fact penniless, they both reconcile.
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