A Broadway Butterfly
{{short description|1925 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Infobox film
| name = A Broadway Butterfly
| image = A Broadway Butterfly (1925) - 3.jpg
| caption = Film still
| director = William Beaudine
| producer =
| story = Pearl Keating
| writer = "Gregory Rogers" (Darryl F. Zanuck)
| starring = Dorothy Devore
| cinematography = Ray June
| editing =
| studio = Warner Bros.
| distributor = Warner Bros.
| released = {{Film date|1925|3|29}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
A Broadway Butterfly is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BroadwayButterfly1925.html |title=A Broadway Butterfly |access-date=December 14, 2013 |work=silentera.com}}[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3058 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: A Broadway Butterfly]
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: A Broadway Butterfly |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=20 |issue=11 |pages=59 |date=7 March 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald20unse/page/1176/mode/1up |access-date=9 December 2021}} Irene Astaire is befriended by Cookie Dale and gets a job in the chorus, although Cookie is dismissed to please male backers of the show. Irene falls in love with a wealthy youth, Ronald Steel, but Crane Wilder wants Irene and plots with Thelma to disgrace Irene. Cookie foils them although Donald sees Wilder leaving Irene’s apartment, and he turns to Thelma. Irene is discouraged and seeks diversion on Broadway. Cookie saves her again and it then develops Cookie is the runaway daughter of a wealthy family and Donald and Irene are once more united.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Dorothy Devore as Irene Astaire
- Louise Fazenda as Cookie Dale
- Willard Louis as Charles Gay
- John Roche as Crane Wilder
- Cullen Landis as Ronald Steel
- Lilyan Tashman as Thelma Perry
- Wilfred Lucas as Stage Manager
- Eugenia Gilbert as Riding Mistress
- Margaret Seddon as Mrs. Steel
}}
Status
With no prints of A Broadway Butterfly located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3995/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Broadway Butterfly] it is a lost film.
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb title|0015646|A Broadway Butterfly}}
- [https://www.moviestillsdb.com/movies/a-broadway-butterfly-i15646/SasvNK Lobby card] at moviestillsdb.com
{{William Beaudine}}
{{Darryl F. Zanuck}}
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Category:Silent American comedy films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by William Beaudine
Category:Lost American comedy films