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Broadway Lady

1925 film


Broadway Lady is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Evelyn Brent.[1]

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Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,[2] Evelyn, as a chorus girl, is admired by a young blue-blood whose family invite her to a reception to show her up. To teach them a lesson for their snobbery, she marries this chap. Bob. His sister becomes infatuated with Martyn, a libertine, and to save her when she prepares to elope, Evelyn goes to Martyn's apartment. He is shot and Evelyn captured and accused. It develops that Mary, a girl Evelyn has befriended, had a row with Martyn and the shot was accidental. Both young women are freed and Bob's family is glad to receive Evelyn as a member of the household.

Cast

Preservation

A print of Broadway Lady is located in the archive of the Library of Congress.[3]


References

  1. "Progressive Silent Film List: Broadway Lady". silentera.com. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
  2. Sewell, Charles S. (December 19, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: Broadway Lady; Evelyn Brent in Entertaining Production Is Cast as Chorus Girl Instead of Crook". The Moving Picture World. 77 (7). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 694. Retrieved October 29, 2021. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. "Broadway Lady". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.



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