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Broken Hearts of Broadway
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / [?] 6800 or 6600? feet
Directed by Irving Cummings

Cast: Colleen Moore [Mary Ellis], Johnnie Walker [George Colton], Alice Lake [Bubbles Revere], Tully Marshall [Barney Ryan], Kate Price [Lydia Ryan], Creighton Hale [outcast], Anthony Merlo [Tony Guido], Arthur Stuart Hall [Barry Peale], Freeman Wood [Frank Huntleigh]

Irving Cummings Productions production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Irving Cummings. Scenario by Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton, from the novel The Broken Hearts of Broadway by James Kyrle MacCurdy. / Released July 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: A young woman goes to New York to seek fame on the Broadway stage.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive; and in the film holdings of Film Preservation Associates (Blackhawk Films collection) [35mm fine-grain positive (from the original camera negative)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Chorus girls - USA: New York: New York: Broadway

Listing updated: 24 June 2009.

References: Drew-Speaking p. 282 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.