Broadway Madness

Broadway Madness
Directed by	Burton L. King
Written by	Harry Chandlee
Produced by	Samuel Zierler Harry Chandlee
Starring	Marguerite De La Motte Donald Keith Betty Hilburn
Cinematography	Arthur Reeves
Production company	Excellent Pictures
Distributed by	Excellent Pictures
Release date	October 1, 1927 (1927-10-01)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Broadway Madness is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Marguerite De La Motte, Donald Keith, and Betty Hilburn.^[1]

Plot

A young farmer in upstate New York City becomes obsessed with a Broadway actress due to her radio 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

• Marguerite De La Motte as Maida Vincent
• Donald Keith as David Ross
• Betty Hilburn as Josie Dare
• Margaret Cloud as Mary Vaughn
• George Cowl as Henry Ableton
• Louis Payne as Jared Ableton
• Robert Dudley as Thomas
• Orral Humphrey as Larry Doyle
• Tom Ricketts as Lawrence Compton
• Alfred Fisher as Ev
• Jack Haley as Radio Announcer

Preservation

With no copies listed in any film archives,^[2] Broadway Madness is a lost film.

References

1. Munden p. 90
2. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Broadway Madness

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

• Broadway Madness at IMDb