The Plaything of Broadway

The Plaything of Broadway

She was young, beautiful and not very wise. Men had given her everything except a chance to be true to herself.

1921 · 50 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama, Romance

A beautiful young girl, Lola, is a dancer at a private club for wealthy men in New York City. Some of the club members make a bet that Lola can't seduce a young doctor, Jennings. Her attempt fails, and in order to find out why she follows him around and discovers that he runs a clinic on the city's poor Lower East Side. She begins to see the young doctor in a new light, and sets out to help him build the emergency hospital he's always wanted.

Directed by John Francis Dillon · Written by Sidney Morgan

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