Broadway Jones (film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Broadway Jones

| image = Broadway Jones 1917 poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Joseph Kaufman

| writer =

| based_on = {{basedon|Broadway Jones|George M. Cohan}}

| producer = George M. Cohan

| starring = George M. Cohan

| cinematography = Lawrence E. Williams

| editing =

| music =

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1917|04|02}}

| runtime = 60 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

Broadway Jones is a lost{{Cite web |date=2023-09-29 |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Broadway Jones |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929034633/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3999/default.html |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=web.archive.org}} 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Joseph Kaufman and starring George M. Cohan, in his film debut, in a motion picture based on his 1912 play, Broadway Jones.[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=7499 Broadway Jones on Broadway 1912-13 at George M. Cohan's Theatre] (played at George M. Cohan's Theatre)[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=18029 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Broadway Jones][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BroadwayJones1917.html Progressive Silent Film List: Broadway Jones] at silentera.com

File:George M. Cohan and Ida Darling in BROADWAY JONES (1917).jpg

Though no known copies survive of the film, a 1931 Paramount promotional film, The House That Shadows Built, contains a clip of Cohan which may be from either Broadway Jones or one of two other lost Cohan silent films from around the same time.

Cast

Production

Production was delayed due to the principal cast being temporarily blinded by the lights on the Knickerbocker Hotel lobby set.{{Cite book |last= |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew152unse/page/1380/mode/2up |title=Motion Picture News |date= |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |others= |location=New York City |publication-date=March 3, 1917 |pages=1381 |language=en}}

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