Lights of Old Broadway

Lights of Old Broadway
Directed by Monta Bell
Produced by Cosmopolitan Productions
Written by Laurence Eyre (play The Merry Wives of Gotham)
Carey Wilson (adaptation & scenario)
Joseph Farnham (intertitles)
Starring Marion Davies
Conrad Nagel
Cinematography Ira H. Morgan
Edited by Blanche Sewell
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • November 1925 (1925-11)
Running time
 70 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles

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.[1]

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.[2][3]

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.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ Layton, James; Pierce, David (February 24, 2015). The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. Rochester, New York: George Eastman House. p. 127. ISBN 978-0935398281.
  2. ↑ Lights of Old Broadway at silentera.com database
  3. ↑ Lights of Old Broadway as produced on Broadway at Henry Miller's Theatre January 16, 1924-April 1924; IBDb.com

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