The Belle of Broadway
About The Belle of Broadway
Adele, once the toast of Paris in DuBarry, is older and out of work, with Edith Yorke playing her at that age and Betty Compson as the young star she had been. Neighbor Marie Duval, also Compson, is coached to pretend that plastic surgery has made Adele young again. Marie stars in a revival of DuBarry, Herbert Rawlinson's Paul Merlin courts her, and the new success makes trouble for both women.
Cast & crew
More about The Belle of Broadway
Harry O. Hoyt directed and Harry Cohn produced for Columbia, which released the film on August 15, 1926. J. Grubb Alexander and Jean Perry wrote the story, Alexander Perry adapted it, and the source is Paul Herve's 1913 musical Adele. The Wikipedia infobox lists 62 minutes, six reels, against Wikidata's 55, and J. O. Taylor photographed it.
Themes
Look
J. O. Taylor photographed the Columbia feature.
Preservation
A print is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.
Notes
- Armand Kaliz plays Count Raoul de Parma and Tom Ricketts plays Maurice Penelli.
- Compson is Marie Duval in the cast list. The plot section also has her as the young Adele, with Yorke as the older woman.
- Wikipedia says the plot is almost identical to Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978), which comes from a Tom Tryon story in Crowned Heads, not from this film.
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment put it on Columbia Classics Volume 5, Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray, on October 22, 2024, as a bonus film.
- A print is in the Library of Congress.
Scenes
- Marie goes on as a surgically restored Adele and opens a revival of DuBarry.
Influenced by
- Paul Herve's 1913 musical Adele
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Belle of Broadway (1926) by Harry O. Hoyt.webm)
- Columbia Classics Volume 5 (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray, October 22, 2024)
