Lights of Old Broadway
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Director Monta Bell Cinematography Ira H. Morgan Duration Country United States | 8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance Produced by Cosmopolitan Productions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent
English intertitles Writer Carey Wilson , Joseph Farnham Release date November 1925 (1925-11) Cast Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel Similar movies Conrad Nagel appears in Lights of Old Broadway and Pretty Ladies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lights of Old Broadway (1925) is a drama film directed by Monta Bell, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel, and is an adaptation of the play The Merry Wives of Gotham by Laurence Eyre (USA). The film has color sequences using tinting, Technicolor, and the Handschiegl color process.
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The play was produced on Broadway at Henry Miller's Theatre from January 16, 1924 to April 1924. Davies' part was played on the stage by actress Mary Ellis.
Plot
Marion Davies plays twins separated at birth: Anne becomes a society girl in New York and Fely becomes an Irish poor girl turning to the musical world. Dirk (Conrad Nagel), Anne's half brother, falls in love with the poor sister, with the added inconvenient that Anne's family owns the slum in which the Irish families live.
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Preservation status
References
Lights of Old Broadway WikipediaLights of Old Broadway IMDb Lights of Old Broadway themoviedb.org