Broadway Love

Broadway Love is a 1918 American silent romance film directed by Ida May Park and starring Lon Chaney. A print of the film survives in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.^[1]

Plot

The film follows the story of Midge O'Hara, a young woman living in the country, who leaves her home in order to perform on Broadway. She able to get hired as a chorus girl, and, at her new job, meets Cherry Blow, a party girl and gold digger. Cherry dates one man, staying with him until his cash runs out, upon which she leaves for someone else wealthy. One of these men is Jack Chalvey, whom Cherry had dated until his expenses from buying her so many things left him in debt. After meeting Midge, Jack, who has become depressed and almost commits suicide, reforms his life and also begins to have interest in her. However, Midge's own life becomes more complicated when her boyfriend from the country, Elmer Watkins, comes to propose to her. To make matters worse, the rich Henry Rockwell begins chasing after her.^[2]

Cast

• Dorothy Phillips as Midge O'Hara
• Juanita Hansen as Cherry Blow
• William Stowell as Henry Rockwell
• Harry von Meter as Jack Chalvey
• Lon Chaney as Elmer Watkins
• Gladys Tennyson as Mrs.Watkins
• Eve Southern as Drina

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Broadway Love was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 2, of an intoxicated man falling on a couch and then from same, the intertitle "I've heard tell of these places", struggle scene where man takes hold of woman's shoulders, in Reel 3, last scene of men and woman drinking at table, kissing woman on shoulder in automobile and all but the first and last struggle scenes, and two intertitles "You've left me alone" etc. and "Its your own game" etc.^[3]

References

External links

• Broadway Love at the Internet Movie Database
• allrovi/synopsis