Broadway Lady

Broadway Lady
Broadway Lady
	Lobby card
Directed by	Wesley Ruggles
Written by	Fred Myton
Starring	Evelyn Brent
Production; company	Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America
Release date	November 15, 1925;
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Broadway Lady is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles.^[1] The film is in the archive of the Library of Congress.^[2]

Plot[]

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[3] Evelyn, as a chorus girl, is admired by a young blue-blood whose family invite her to a reception to show her up. To teach them a lesson for their snobbery, she marries this chap. Bob. His sister becomes infatuated with Martyn, a libertine, and to save her when she prepares to elope, Evelyn goes to Martyn's apartment. He is shot and Evelyn captured and accused. It develops that Mary, a girl Evelyn has befriended has a row with Martyn and the shot was accidental. Both young women are freed and Bob's family is glad to receive Evelyn as a member of the household.

Cast[]

Evelyn Brent as Rosalie Ryan
Marjorie Bonner as Mary Andrews
Theodore von Eltz as Bob Westbrook
Joyce Compton as Phyllis Westbrook
Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Westbrook
Ernest Hilliard as Martyn Edwards

References[]

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Broadway Lady". silentera.com. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
^ "Broadway Lady". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
^ Sewell, Charles S. (December 19, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: Broadway Lady; Evelyn Brent in Entertaining Production Is Cast as Chorus Girl Instead of Crook". The Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co. 77 (7): 694. Retrieved October 29, 2021.

External links[]

Broadway Lady at IMDb

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[silentera-1] "Progressive Silent Film List: Broadway Lady". silentera.com. Retrieved September 8, 2011.

[LOC-2] "Broadway Lady". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.

[MPW-3] Sewell, Charles S. (December 19, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: Broadway Lady; Evelyn Brent in Entertaining Production Is Cast as Chorus Girl Instead of Crook". The Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co. 77 (7): 694. Retrieved October 29, 2021.

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