The Broken Butterfly
6.4
“A Symphony of Love and Pathos FOR MAIDS and MATRONS MOTHERS and DAUGHTERS FATHERS and SONS”
A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration, who comes to find it in her and the star-crossed romance that develops between them.
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Cast
11 people
Lew Cody
Darrell Thorne
Known for
Dishonored
Mary Alden
Zabie Elliot
Known for
The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Maurice Tourneur
Charles E. Whittaker
Penelope Knapp
Pauline Starke
Marcene Elliot
Also in
The Arizona Express
The Viking
H. Tipton Steck
H Tipton Steck
Peaches Johnson
Marcène's Child
Also in
Bachelor Party
Nina Byron
Marcène's Sister
Also in
Johnny Get Your Gun
The Dub
Charles E. Whittaker
Maurice Tourneur Director · Penelope Knapp Author
United States release November 1, 1919 · Produced in United States · Production Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Production
Maurice Tourneur Productions
Production
Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · November 1, 1919
Theatrical
France
January 12, 1923
Germany
November 16, 2020 · restored version TV premiere
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