Broken Hearts of Hollywood | |
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Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
Screenplay by | Raymond L. Schrock Edward Clark Graham Baker (scenario) |
Starring | Patsy Ruth Miller Louise Dresser Douglas Fairbanks Jr. |
Cinematography | Virgil Miller |
Edited by | Clarence Kolster |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 80 minutes (8 reels) |
Country | United States |
Language | Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles) |
Broken Hearts of Hollywood is a 1926 American synchronized sound comedy drama film released by Warner Bros. It is the second feature- length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue. The film is directed by Lloyd Bacon. [1] A print of the film exists. [2]
Virginia Perry leaves her husband and child to return to Hollywood; but having dissipated her beauty and seeking solace in drink, she soon finds herself another "has been" on the fringe of movie circles. Her daughter, Betty Anne, wins a national beauty contest, and en route to Hollywood she meets Hal, another contest winner. Both fail in their first screen attempts and turn to Marshall, an unscrupulous trickster, who enrols them in his acting school. Molly, a movie extra, induces Betty Anne to attend a wild party, where she is arrested in a raid, and Hal, to raise the money for her bail, takes a "stunt" job in which he is badly hurt. Betty Anne seeks the aid of star actor McLain, who obtains for her the leading female role in his next film. Virginia, who is cast as her mother, keeps silent about their relationship until the film is completed. Apprehensive for her daughter's safety, she shoots Marshall while in a drunken stupor and is arrested. At the trial, Betty Anne's testimony saves her mother, who is then happily united with her daughter and Hal.
A print of Broken Hearts of Hollywood is preserved in the George Eastman House and Filmmuseum Amsterdam. [3]
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