''Broadway Broke'' is a 1923 American silent

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directed by

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and starring

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, Percy Marmont, and

Gladys Leslie Gladys Leslie Moore (March 5, 1899 – October 2, 1976) was an American actress in silent film, active in the 1910s and 1920s. Though less-remembered than superstars like Mary Pickford, she had a number of starring roles from 1917 to the ea ...

. A struggling former

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actress tries to restart her career by turning to playwriting.

Cast

Preservation

*No prints survive which makes this a lost film.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:''Broadway Broke''
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References

Bibliography

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

External links

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