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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1711

Broadway Love

191850 minUnited States

Synopsis

A country girl finds work in a Broadway chorus and enters a world of parties, precarious romances and wealthy suitors. Helping a despairing man complicates her own choices as admirers from both city and country pursue her.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 59:55
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Ida May Park · Public domain

Cast

Lon Chaney

Dorothy Phillips

William Stowell

DirectorsIda May Park

Inspirations

Ida May Park adapted W. Carey Wonderly's novelette, published in Snappy Stories in 1916. Dorothy Phillips plays Midge, with Lon Chaney as the suitor from her hometown.

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Lon Chaney — Unknown author · Public domain
Dorothy Phillips — Unknown author Unknown author; http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/movies/trading-cards/1910s-real-photo-movie-cards.html · Public domain
William Stowell — M P Publishing; Motion picture classic, Volumes 3-4 1915 · Public domain

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