Pop becomes infatuated with a married woman who poses as a widow and behaves like one at the dance, but is painfully disillusioned when he discovers her jealous husband..
Al Giebler
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The year 1920 was a crossroads for the cinematic medium. While the industry was beginning to flirt with the sprawling, high-concept narratives found in epics like Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean, there remained a robust appetite for the localized, character-driven shorts that defined the vaudeville-to-screen tr...


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Robert Eddy

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" The year 1920 was a crossroads for the cinematic medium. While the industry was beginning to flirt with the sprawling, high-concept narratives found in epics like Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean, there remained a robust appetite for the localized, character-driven shorts that defined the vaudeville-to-screen transition. Pop Tuttle's Grass Widow, directed with a keen eye for rural absurdity and written by the sharp-witted Al Giebler, stands as a quintessential artifact of this era. It is ..."


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