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Lights of Old Broadway is a american film of genre Drama directed by Monta Bell released in USA on 31 october 1925 with Marion Davies
Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
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Add to a movie listLights of Old Broadway (1925) is a drama film directed by Monta Bell, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel, and is an adaptation of the play The Merry Wives of Gotham by Laurence Eyre (USA). The film has color sequences using tinting, Technicolor, and the Handschiegl color process.
The play was produced on Broadway at Henry Miller's Theatre from January 16, 1924 to April 1924. Davies' part was played on the stage by actress Mary Ellis.
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Marion Davies plays twins separated at birth: Anne becomes a society girl in New York and Fely becomes an Irish poor girl turning to the musical world. Dirk (Conrad Nagel), Anne's half brother, falls in love with the poor sister, with the added inconvenient that Anne's family owns the slum in which the Irish families live.Actors
Marion Davies
(Fely / Anne)
Conrad Nagel
(Dirk de Rhonde)
Julia Swayne Gordon
(Mrs. de Rhonde)
Frank Currier
(Lambert de Rhonde)
George K. Arthur
(Andy)
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