Region: ABC
MSRP: $29.95
The Production: 3.5/5
Silent screen star Marion Davies was at the height of her fame and popularity playing a dual role in Monta Bellâs 1925 comedy-drama
Lights of Old Broadway. The two roles offered Miss Davies the opportunity to play a gamut of characteristics from noble to feisty, and she delivered brilliantly in a movie with a hoary old plot but with enough MGM razzmatazz to capture the eye and warm the heart.
Identical twins orphaned at birth on a voyage to America, brunette Anne (Marion Davies as an adult) is taken by the wealthy banking family the de Rhondes while blonde Fely (again, Marion Davies) goes to the immigrating Irish family the O’Tandys. Years later, Fely keeps a roof over her familyâs head by doing Irish jigs at Tony Pastorâs New York vaudeville house. Banker Lambert de Rhonde (Frank Currier), however, wants to clear out the Irish riffraff from his 69