The Broken Melody
1919•50m•Released
Drama
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.
Director
William P.S. Earle
Writer
Ouida Bergère
Languages
No Language
Studio
Selznick Pictures
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
Gus Weinberg
Ivan
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