Broken Hearts of Hollywood

Broken Hearts of Hollywood is a 1926 American silent comedy drama film released by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. It is unknown, but the film might have been released with a Vitaphone soundtrack. A print of the film exists.

Plot
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.

Cast

 * Patsy Ruth Miller as Betty Anne Bolton
 * Louise Dresser as Virginia Perry
 * Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Hal Terwilliger
 * Jerry Miley as Marshall
 * Stuart Holmes as McLain
 * Barbara Worth as Molly
 * Dick Sutherland as the Sheriff
 * Emile Chautard as the Director
 * Anders Randolf as the District Attorney
 * George Nichols as the Chief of Detectives
 * Sam de Grasse as the Defense Attorney
 * Dolores Corrigan as Betty Anne Bolton as a Child (uncredited)

Preservation
A print of Broken Hearts of Hollywood is preserved in the George Eastman House and Filmmuseum Amsterdam.