Broadway Love
About Broadway Love
Midge O'Hara leaves the country for a Broadway chorus. She meets Cherry Blow, who drops men when the money stops, including Jack Chalvey. Jack is near ruin when he meets Midge. Her boyfriend from home, Elmer Watkins, comes to propose. She turns him off, and he marries someone else. Henry Rockwell, who has money, follows her. At a party she pulls Jack back from killing himself and is soaked in the rain. Rockwell offers a cab, tries to grab her, and she falls and is hurt. He proposes at the hospital. Cherry goes back to Jack. Dorothy Phillips plays Midge. Lon Chaney plays Elmer.
Cast & crew
More about Broadway Love
Ida May Park wrote and directed it from W. Carey Wonderly's novelette, published in Snappy Stories on June 18, 1916. Universal released it on January 21, 1918. Five reels, listed at 60 minutes. William Stowell and Juanita Hansen are billed.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Chaney is the boyfriend from home, not the man with the money.
- Park has both the script and the direction.
- The source novelette is dated June 18, 1916.
- Stowell and Hansen are billed. The article does not assign them Rockwell and Cherry by name.
Scenes
- Midge gets Jack away from the party in the rain.
- She falls from Rockwell's cab and hears the proposal in the hospital.
Influenced by
- W. Carey Wonderly's novelette Broadway Love (1916)