A Broadway Butterfly

1925 film

March 29, 1925 (1925-03-29)

Running time

70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

A Broadway Butterfly is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine.^[1]^[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[3] 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

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,^[4] it is a lost film.

References

^ "A Broadway Butterfly". silentera.com. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: A Broadway Butterfly
^ "New Pictures: A Broadway Butterfly", Exhibitors Herald, 20 (11): 59, March 7, 1925, retrieved December 9, 2021
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Broadway Butterfly

External links

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Films directed by William Beaudine

1920s-30s

Watch Your Step (1922)
Catch My Smoke (1922)
Heroes of the Street (1922)
Her Fatal Millions (1923)
Penrod and Sam (1923)
The Printer's Devil (1923)
The Country Kid (1923)
Boy of Mine (1923)
Daring Youth (1924)
Wandering Husbands (1924)
Daughters of Pleasure (1924)
A Self-Made Failure (1924)
Cornered (1924)
Lovers' Lane (1924) (unconfirmed)
The Narrow Street (1925)
A Broadway Butterfly (1925)
How Baxter Butted In (1925)
Little Annie Rooney (1925)
That's My Baby (1926)
Sparrows (1926)
The Social Highwayman (1926)
The Canadian (1926)
Frisco Sally Levy (1927)
The Life of Riley (1927)
The Irresistible Lover (1927)
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris (1928)
Heart to Heart (1928)
Home, James (1928)
Do Your Duty (1928)
Give and Take (1928)
Fugitives (1929)
Two Weeks Off (1929)
Hard to Get (1929)
The Girl from Woolworth's (1929)
Wedding Rings (1929)
Those Who Dance (1930)
Road to Paradise (1930)
Father's Son (1931)
Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
The Lady Who Dared (1931)
The Mad Parade (1931)
Penrod and Sam (1931)
Men in Her Life (1931)
Three Wise Girls (1932)
Make Me a Star (1932)
The Crime of the Century (1933)
Her Bodyguard (1933)
The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

British films

Two Hearts in Harmony (1935)
So You Won't Talk (1935)
Dandy Dick (1935)
Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
Get Off My Foot (1935)
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935)
Where There's a Will (1936)
Educated Evans (1936)
It's in the Bag (1936)
Windbag the Sailor (1936)
Feather Your Nest (1937)
Said O'Reilly to McNab (1937)
Take It from Me (1937)

1930s-40s

Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)
Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
She Done Him Right (1940)
Four Shall Die (1940)
The Last Alarm (1940)
Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
Up Jumped the Devil (1941)
Emergency Landing (1941)
Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941)
Federal Fugitives (1941)
Desperate Cargo (1941)
Mr. Celebrity (1941)
The Miracle Kid (1941)
Blonde Comet (1941)
Duke of the Navy (1942)
Broadway Big Shot (1942)
Lucky Ghost (1942)
Professor Creeps (1942)
The Panther's Claw (1942)
Men of San Quentin (1942)
Gallant Lady (1942)
One Thrilling Night (1942)
Phantom Killer (1942)
Foreign Agent (1942)
The Living Ghost (1942)
The Ape Man (1943)
Clancy Street Boys (1943)
Spotlight Scandals (1943)
Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
Here Comes Kelly (1943)
Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943)
Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)
What a Man! (1944)
Voodoo Man (1944)
Hot Rhythm (1944)
Detective Kitty O'Day (1944)
Follow the Leader (1944)
Leave It to the Irish (1944)
Oh, What a Night (1944)
Shadow of Suspicion (1944)
Bowery Champs (1944)
Crazy Knights (1944)
Mom and Dad (1945)
Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945)
Fashion Model (1945)
Blonde Ransom (1945)
Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
Come Out Fighting (1945)
Black Market Babies (1945)
Girl on the Spot (1946)
The Face of Marble (1946)
One Exciting Week (1946)
Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946)
Below the Deadline (1946)
Spook Busters (1946)
Mr. Hex (1946)
Philo Vance Returns (1947)
Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
Too Many Winners (1947)
Killer at Large (1947)
Gas House Kids Go West (1947)
News Hounds (1947)
Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
The Chinese Ring (1947)
Angels' Alley (1947)
Jinx Money (1948)
Shanghai Chest (1948)
The Golden Eye (1948)
Smugglers' Cove (1948)
Incident (1948)
Kidnapped (1948)
Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948)
The Feathered Serpent (1948)
The Lawton Story (1949)
Tuna Clipper (1949)
Forgotten Women (1949)
Trail of the Yukon (1949)
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949)
Tough Assignment (1949)

1950s-60s

Blue Grass of Kentucky (1950)
Blonde Dynamite (1950)
Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950)
Lucky Losers (1950)
County Fair (1950)
Second Chance (1950)
Blues Busters (1950)
A Wonderful Life (1951)
Bowery Battalion (1951)
Cuban Fireball (1951)
Ghost Chasers (1951)
Let's Go Navy! (1951)
Havana Rose (1951)
Crazy Over Horses (1951)
Rodeo (1952)
Hold That Line (1952)
Jet Job (1952)
Here Come the Marines (1952)
The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Feudin' Fools (1952)
No Holds Barred (1952)
Jalopy (1953)
Born to the Saddle (1953)
Roar of the Crowd (1953)
Murder Without Tears (1953)
Yukon Vengeance (1954)
Paris Playboys (1954)
Pride of the Blue Grass (1954)
High Society (1955)
Jail Busters (1955)
Westward Ho the Wagons! (1956)
Up in Smoke (1957)
In the Money (1958)
Ten Who Dared (1960)
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

Old San Francisco (1927)
The First Auto (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Tenderloin (1928)
The Show of Shows (1929)
Three Faces East (1930)
The Doorway to Hell (1931)
Little Caesar (1931)
Illicit (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
Doctor X (1932)
Life Begins (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Three on a Match (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
Ex-Lady (1933)
The Bowery (1933)
Blood Money (1933)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Looking for Trouble (1934)
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Les Misérables (1935)
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Call of the Wild (1935)
Metropolitan (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
Professional Soldier (1935)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
It Had to Happen (1936)
A Message to Garcia (1936)
Under Two Flags (1936)
The Road to Glory (1936)
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Seventh Heaven (1937)
Slave Ship (1937)
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Wake Up and Live (1937)
Thin Ice (1937)
Lancer Spy (1937)
In Old Chicago (1938)
Happy Landing (1938)
International Settlement (1938)
Kentucky Moonshine
Always Goodbye (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
My Lucky Star (1938)
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Jesse James (1939)
Tail Spin (1939)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
The Rains Came (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Swanee River (1939)
The Little Princess (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Little Old New York (1940)
The Man I Married (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
The Great Profile (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Hudson's Bay (1941)
Tobacco Road (1941)
The Great American Broadcast (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1942)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Sex Hygiene (Short) (1942)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
This Above All (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
The Purple Heart (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Winged Victory (1944)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Pinky (1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
No Way Out (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
People Will Talk (1951)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
The Egyptian (1954)
The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Island in the Sun (1957)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
Sanctuary (1961)
The Big Gamble (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Chapman Report (1962)
The Visit (1964)

Writer

as Mark Canfield	The Desired Woman (1927) (story) Maybe It's Love (1930) Baby Face (1933) (story) Crack in the Mirror (1960)
as Melville Crossman	Tenderloin (story) (1928) State Street Sadie (story) (1928) Thanks a Million (story) (1935) A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) (1941) Thunder Birds (original story) (1942) China Girl (story) (1942) The Purple Heart (story) (1944)
as Gregory Rogers	Find Your Man (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) The Lighthouse by the Sea (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) (1925) The Midnight Taxi (story) (1928)
as self	A Broadway Butterfly (1925) Red Hot Tires (1925) Hogan's Alley (1925) The Caveman (scenario) (1926) The Little Irish Girl (adaptation) (1926) The Social Highwayman (1926) Footloose Widows (1926) Across the Pacific (adaptation) (1926) The Better 'Ole (screenplay) (1926) Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) (1927) Old San Francisco (1927) The First Auto (story) (1927) Good Time Charley (story) (1927) Noah's Ark (story) (1928) My Man (story) (1928) Hardboiled Rose (story) (1929) Madonna of Avenue A (story) (1929) Say It with Songs (story) (1929) The Life of the Party (1930) Little Caesar (story – uncredited) (1931) The Dark Horse (story) (1932) Lady Killer (story – uncredited) (1933) Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer – uncredited) (1935) G Men (story) (1935) This Is My Affair (story – uncredited) (1937) Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer – uncredited) (1938) The Great Profile (story – uncredited) (1940) Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)