The Red Widow

The Red Widow
Newspaper advertisement with image of Barrymore ducking Flora Zabelle who is holding a large bomb.
Directed by	James Durkin
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky Daniel Frohman
Written by	Channing Pollock (play) Rennold Wolf (play) Hugh Ford (scenario)
Starring	John Barrymore
Music by	Charles J. Gebest
Cinematography	William F. Wagner
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	April 1916
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Red Widow is a lost 1916 silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on a 1911 Broadway musical play The Red Widow by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf and starring comedian Raymond Hitchcock. John Barrymore stars in this film in the Hitchcock part of Cicero Butts. Hitchcock's wife, Flora Zabelle, is the leading lady in this film.

This particular comedy was shot twice. The negative for the first version burned up in a nitrate fire before prints were made. This was probably the same Famous Players fire of September 11, 1915 that destroyed the first version of Mary Pickford's Esmerelda (1915). Barrymore and cast reshot the film for no salary.

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