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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1645

The Broken Butterfly

191959 minUnited States

Synopsis

A young woman in Canada falls in love with a visiting composer but is left facing pregnancy and her aunt's hostility. False news of her death sends him away, making his eventual return a painful confrontation with what he believed he had lost.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 58:39
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 · Maurice Tourneur · Public domain

Cast

Lew Cody

Mary Alden

Pauline Starke

DirectorsMaurice Tourneur

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Lew Cody — Unknown author Unknown author; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs · Public domain
Mary Alden — Hartsook; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs · Public domain
Pauline Starke — Bain News Service · Public domain

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