Broadway Arizona (1917)
61 mins | Comedy-drama | 30 September 1917
According to an item in the October 1917 Photo-Play Journal, Olive Thomas wrote the story, still untitled, for Broadway Arizona in collaboration with director Lynn Reynolds.
The 25 Aug 1917 Motion Picture News reported that the film company was "roughing it" in the mountains near Big Bear Lake, CA, where exteriors were being filmed. A week later, the 1 Sep 1917 Motion Picture News reported that they had returned home after ten days on location. That was followed by two weeks in the studio in Culver City, according to the 15 September 1917 Motion Picture News.
The 15 September 1917 Moving Picture World also mentioned that some location work was done in the vicinity of Victorville, CA, in San Bernardino County's high desert, but that hundred-degree temperatures limited filming to four hours a day.
According to the 1918 MPSD, Arthur Hoyt worked on the film, but it is unclear whether he worked as an actor or as a casting director.
Prior to beginning her film career in 1916, Olive Thomas was a Ziegfeld dancer. For more information about her, see Madcap Madge (1917).
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant. ...
According to an item in the October 1917 Photo-Play Journal, Olive Thomas wrote the story, still untitled, for Broadway Arizona in collaboration with director Lynn Reynolds.
The 25 Aug 1917 Motion Picture News reported that the film company was "roughing it" in the mountains near Big Bear Lake, CA, where exteriors were being filmed. A week later, the 1 Sep 1917 Motion Picture News reported that they had returned home after ten days on location. That was followed by two weeks in the studio in Culver City, according to the 15 September 1917 Motion Picture News.
The 15 September 1917 Moving Picture World also mentioned that some location work was done in the vicinity of Victorville, CA, in San Bernardino County's high desert, but that hundred-degree temperatures limited filming to four hours a day.
According to the 1918 MPSD, Arthur Hoyt worked on the film, but it is unclear whether he worked as an actor or as a casting director.
Prior to beginning her film career in 1916, Olive Thomas was a Ziegfeld dancer. For more information about her, see Madcap Madge (1917).
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant.
While on vacation in New York, millionaire cattle rancher John Keyes falls in love with musical comedy star Fritzi Carlyle. Recognizing the opportunity for a great story, Fritzi's press agent encourages her to accept the Westerner's proposal of marriage, only to deny it the next day in a wave of newspaper publicity. Disheartened, Keyes returns to Arizona and Fritzi continues performing until she suffers a nervous breakdown. Reading of Fritzi's misfortune, Keyes returns East, kidnaps Fritzi, and takes her to Arizona in his automobile. There, the change of climate performs wonders and she recovers quickly. Meanwhile, her stage manager sends detectives after her, and when they arrive in Arizona ready to arrest Keyes for kidnapping, Fritzi explains that the whole adventure was an elaborate publicity stunt and announces that she and her Arizona cowboy are going to be ...
While on vacation in New York, millionaire cattle rancher John Keyes falls in love with musical comedy star Fritzi Carlyle. Recognizing the opportunity for a great story, Fritzi's press agent encourages her to accept the Westerner's proposal of marriage, only to deny it the next day in a wave of newspaper publicity. Disheartened, Keyes returns to Arizona and Fritzi continues performing until she suffers a nervous breakdown. Reading of Fritzi's misfortune, Keyes returns East, kidnaps Fritzi, and takes her to Arizona in his automobile. There, the change of climate performs wonders and she recovers quickly. Meanwhile, her stage manager sends detectives after her, and when they arrive in Arizona ready to arrest Keyes for kidnapping, Fritzi explains that the whole adventure was an elaborate publicity stunt and announces that she and her Arizona cowboy are going to be married.
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