The Broken Melody (1919)
Stewart, an art student in the "bohemian" Greenwich Village in New York City, lives next door to his girlfriend Hedda, who wants to be a singer. One night while they are dining at their favorite cafe, a wealthy woman, Mrs. Trask, comes up to them with a proposition: she knows he is an artist and wants to go to Paris in order to study and develop his talent, and she will pay all his expenses to allow him to do that. He refuses because he doesn't want to leave Hedda, but she eventually persuades him to agree. It turns out that she as an ulterior motive for what she's doing--as does Mrs. Trask.
- Date of release
- 1919-12-01
- TMDB
- 0.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- William P.S. Earle
Casting
- Eugene O'Brien — Stewart Grant
- Lucy Cotton — Hedda Dana
- Donald Hall — Howard Thornby
- Ivo Dawson — Leroy Clemons
- Jack W. Johnston — (as Jack Johnstone)
- Corinne Barker — Mrs. Drexel Trask
- Gus Weinberg — Ivan
Interesting facts
The Broken Melody is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by William P.S. Earle and starring Eugene O'Brien, Lucy Cotton and Corinne Barker. Location shooting for the film was done in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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