Broadway Jones (film)
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{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
- George M. Cohan as Broadway Jones
- Marguerite Snow as Josie Richards
- Russell Bassett as Andrew Jones
- Crauford Kent as Robert Wallace (credited as Crawford Kent)
- Ida Darling as Mrs. Gerard
- Joseph W. Smiley (credited as Joe Smiley)
- John De Lacey
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}}
References
{{reflist}}
External links
{{commons category|Broadway Jones (film)}}
- {{IMDb title|0007751|Broadway Jones}}
- [https://archive.today/20141028014615/http://cornucopia.theiapolis.com/goodies/6vWuL/broadway-jones-george-m-cohan-marguerite-snow-1917.html Lobby poster]
- [https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/broadway-jones-artcraft-1917-532014325 Lobby card cluster] (archived)
- [https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1929-george-m-cohan-still-photo-from-broadway Portrait] (archived)
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Lost American comedy films
Category:American films based on plays
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Silent American comedy films
Category:Films directed by Joseph Kaufman
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1910s English-language films
{{1910s-comedy-film-stub}}