The Belle of Broadway

Aug 15, 1926

1h 1m

★ 5.8

A Romantic Drama of Youth Glorified and Age Defied!

Overview

Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris, one again and the other newly-crowned.

Genres

Romance

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Marie Duval / The Young Adele

Betty Compson

Maurice Penelli

Tom Ricketts

Count Raoul de Parma

Armand Kaliz

Madame Adele

Edith Yorke

Paul Merlin

Herbert Rawlinson

Major Anstruthers

Wilfrid North

An Old Beau

Edward Warren

An Old Beau

Edward Kipling

Bearded Old Beau

August Tollaire

M. Laroux (uncredited)

Max Barwyn

Fabio Merlin (uncredited)

Ervin Renard

Laroux's Associate (uncredited)

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