The Broken Melody

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The Broken Melody (1919)

Directed by William P.S. Earle

Drama · 50m

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.

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Cast

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
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Gus Weinberg Ivan

Crew

Director
William P.S. Earle
Screenplay
Ouida Bergère

Details

Release date
1919-12-01
Runtime
50m
Genres
Drama
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
United States of America
Production
Selznick Pictures