''Broadway Madness'' is a 1927 American silent

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directed by Burton L. King and starring

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, Donald Keith, and Betty Hilburn.

Plot

A young farmer in upstate

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becomes obsessed with a

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actress due to her

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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

as Maida Vincent * Donald Keith as David Ross * Betty Hilburn as Josie Dare * Margaret Cloud as Mary Vaughn *

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as Henry Ableton *

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as Jared Ableton * Robert Dudley as Thomas * Orral Humphrey as Larry Doyle *

Tom Ricketts Thomas B. Ricketts (15 January 1853 – 19 January 1939) was an English-born American stage actor, stage and motion picture, film actor and film director, director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the fi ...

as Lawrence Compton * Alfred Fisher as Ev *

Jack Haley John Joseph Haley Jr. (August 10, 1898 – June 6, 1979) was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer, drummer and vaudevillian. He was best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart Hickory in the 193 ...

as Radio Announcer

Preservation

With no copies listed in any film archives,Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Broadway Madness''
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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

* 1927 films 1927 lost films 1927 romantic drama films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films American silent feature films English-language romantic drama films Films directed by Burton L. King Lost American romantic drama films Silent American romantic drama films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub