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Lights of old Broadway
Title
Lights of old Broadway [motion picture] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Cosmopolitan production ; directed by Monta Bell ; screenplay, Carey Wilson.
Published
©1925.
Publication
New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2021]
Notes
Silent feature.
Source: Merry wives of Gotham, or, Two and sixpence, a comedy in three acts / Laurence Eyre (New York, 1930).
Credits supplied from: AFI catalog, 1921-1930.
Original distributor was Metro-Goldwyn Distributing Corp.
Footage on release was 6,595 ft., according to: AFI catalog, 1921-1930.
Copyright notice on film: c1925 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Photography, Ira H. Morgan.
Silent with English intertitles.
Summary
Marion Davies plays twins, one of whom (Fely) is adopted by poor Irish living in New York's shantytown and grows up to be a dancer in Tony Pastor's theater, and the other of whom (Anne) is adopted by the wealthy De Rhondo's. Includes a depiction of the Orangemen's Riot.
Variant and related titles
Lights of old Broadway.
Format
Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 03, 2021
Credits
Photography, Ira H. Morgan.
Cast
Marion Davies (Fely/Anne); Conrad Nagel (Dirk de Rhondo); Frank Currier (Lambert de Rhondo, his father); George K. Arthur (Andy); Charles McHugh (Shamus O'Tandy); Eleanor Lawson (Mrs. O'Tandy); Julia Swayne Gordon (Mrs. de Rhondo); Mathew Betz (Baby Blue); Wilbur Higby (Fowler); Bodil Rosing (Widow Gorman); George Bunny (Tony Pastor); George Harris (Joe Weber); Bernard Berger (Lew Fields); Frank Glendon (Thomas A. Edison); Buck Black (young Teddy Roosevelt); Karl Dane (Roosevelt's father); William de Vaull (de Rhondo's butler).
System details note
Blu-ray.
Videorecording number
K25389 Kino Classics
Subjects
Genre/Form
Silent films.
Drama.
Features.
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