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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1336

The Belle of Broadway

192662 minUnited States

Synopsis

An ageing stage star persuades a younger neighbour to impersonate her, explaining the renewed youth as a surgical transformation. Their successful revival creates romantic and personal complications for both women.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 60:41
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 · Harry O. Hoyt · Public domain

Cast

Betty Compson

DirectorsHarry O. Hoyt

Behind the scenes

Betty Compson plays the young performer and also represents the older actress in her earlier years. The theatrical deception makes the difference between a public image and a private identity the centre of the drama.

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Photograph credit

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Betty Compson — Paramount Pictures, publicity photo. Betty Compson in The Docks of New York (1927). Directed by Josef von Sternberg. · Public domain

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