Broadway Madness

1927 film

  • October 1, 1927 (1927-10-01)
Running time
70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Broadway Madness is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Marguerite De La Motte, Donald Keith, and Betty Hilburn.[1]

Plot

A young farmer in upstate New York City becomes obsessed with a Broadway actress due to her radio broadcasts. She later becomes involved in a plot to defraud him of his inheritance, but instead falls in love and confesses everything to him.

Cast

  • Marguerite De La Motte as Maida Vincent
  • Donald Keith as David Ross
  • Betty Hilburn as Josie Dare
  • Margaret Cloud as Mary Vaughn
  • George Cowl as Henry Ableton
  • Louis Payne as Jared Ableton
  • Robert Dudley as Thomas
  • Orral Humphrey as Larry Doyle
  • Tom Ricketts as Lawrence Compton
  • Alfred Fisher as Ev
  • Jack Haley as Radio Announcer

Preservation

With no copies listed in any film archives,[2] Broadway Madness is a lost film.

References

  1. ^ Munden p. 90
  2. ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Broadway Madness

Bibliography

  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

  • Broadway Madness at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Synopsis at AllMovie
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