The Broken Melody (1919)

0.0/10 • 50 min • Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Eugene O'Brien

Lucy Cotton

Donald Hall

Ivo Dawson

Jack W. Johnston

(as Jack Johnstone)

Corinne Barker

Mrs. Drexel Trask

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