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Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926) on 14 august 1926
, 1h20
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Dresser, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Stuart Holmes, Émile Chautard, Anders Randolf
Rating65% 3.2667653.2667653.2667653.2667653.266765
Virginia Perry leaves her husband and child to return to Hollywood; but having dissipated her beauty and seeking solace in drink, she soon finds herself another "has been" on the fringe of movie circles. Her daughter, Betty Anne, wins a national beauty contest, and en route to Hollywood she meets Hal, another contest winner; both fail in their first screen attempts and turn to Marshall, an unscrupulous trickster, who enrolls them in his acting school. Molly, a movie extra, induces Betty Anne to attend a wild party; she is arrested in a raid; and Hal, to raise the money for her bail, takes a "stunt" job in which he is badly hurt. Betty Anne seeks the aid of star actor McLain, who obtains for her the leading female role in his next film; Virginia, who is cast as her mother, keeps silent about their relationship until the film is completed. Apprehensive for her daughter's safety, she shoots Marshall while in a drunken stupor and is arrested. At the trial, Betty Anne's testimony saves her mother, who is then happily united with her daughter and Hal.