The Broken Melody (1919 film)

The Broken Melody
Ad for the film from a 1919 issue of Exhibitors Herald
Directed by	William P.S. Earle
Written by	Ouida Bergère Dorothy Farnum
Produced by	Lewis J. Selznick
Starring	Eugene O'Brien Lucy Cotton Corinne Barker
Cinematography	John W. Brown
Edited by	W. Duncan Mansfield
Production company	Selznick Pictures
Distributed by	Select Pictures Corp.
Release date	December 14, 1919 (1919-12-14)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Broken Melody is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by William P.S. Earle and starring Eugene O'Brien, Lucy Cotton and Corinne Barker.[1] Location shooting for the film was done in Greenwich Village in New York City.[2]

Plot

Cast

• Eugene O'Brien as Stewart Grant
• Lucy Cotton as Hedda Dana
• Corinne Barker as Mrs. Drexel Trask
• Donald Hall as Howard Thornby
• Ivo Dawson as Leroy Clemons
• Gus Weinberg as Ivan

Preservation

With no prints of The Broken Melody located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.[3] In October of 2019, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[2]

References

1. Connelly p.327
2. "The Broken Melody". afi.com. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
3. "American Silent Feature Film Database: The Broken Melody". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 23, 2024.

Bibliography

• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• The Broken Melody at IMDb