Broadway Madness Explained

Broadway Madness
Producer:	Samuel Zierler Harry Chandlee
Starring:	Marguerite De La Motte Donald Keith Betty Hilburn
Cinematography:	Arthur Reeves
Distributor:	Excellent Pictures
Runtime:	70 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Broadway Madness is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Marguerite De La Motte, Donald Keith, and Betty Hilburn.^[1]

Plot

A young farmer in upstate New York City becomes obsessed with a Broadway actress due to her radio broadcasts. She later becomes involved in a plot to defraud him of his inheritance, but instead falls in love and confesses everything to him.

Cast

• Marguerite De La Motte as Maida Vincent
• Donald Keith as David Ross
• Betty Hilburn as Josie Dare
• Margaret Cloud as Mary Vaughn
• George Cowl as Henry Ableton
• Louis Payne as Jared Ableton
• Robert Dudley as Thomas
• Orral Humphrey as Larry Doyle
• Tom Ricketts as Lawrence Compton
• Alfred Fisher as Ev
• Jack Haley as Radio Announcer

Preservation

With no copies listed in any film archives,^[2] Broadway Madness is a lost film.

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

Notes and References

1. Munden p. 90
2. http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4000/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Broadway Madness