Merry Widow, The [DVD] Westerns Carrie Fisher also stars in

Carrie Fisher also stars in this slice-of-life film from director Sidney Lumet

left to raise her baby alone: Mary Donnell (Bette Davis) leads the kind of three-hanky life just made for a prestige '30s melodrama

while teaching pattern recognition

embittered wife on whom he cheats…and over the sons – one from marriage and one illegitimate – who strive for their father’s respect

renovates a dilapidated ranch on her property

Merry Widow, The [DVD] Westerns Carrie Fisher also stars inThe Merry Widow with no singing? A silent version of an operetta may seem an unlikely venture, but this vivacious hit proved that the right ingredients make for an irresistible romantic souffl?. Those ingredients include Erich von Stroheim's stylish direction (in his first film after Greed), ex Ziegfeld bombshell Mae Murray in her best role, a star making turn for John Gilbert and a mythical European kingdom straight out of fairyland. Murray plays