The College Widow is a 1915 silent comedy drama film starring Ethel Clayton. It's the first filming of George Ade's 1904 campus comedy play of the same name performed on Broadway that year. The film was made by the Lubin Manufacturing Company in Pennsylvania and is now lost.
Later film adaptations of this story are The College Widow (1927), Maybe It's Love (1930), and Freshman Love (1936).
During the filming of The College Widow, actor Clarence Elmer met and married Edyth Stroud Anderton, and the wedding was held at the Philadelphia Lubin Studio on February 13th.
Motion Picture News reviewer Irene Page Soloman gave the film a positive review, finding that the acting was not only good from the leads "In fact, the long cast are all good even the minor characters being in capable hands."