Broken Barriers is a 1924

1924 in film

-Events:* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 film starring James Kirkwood

James Kirkwood, Sr.

James Kirkwood, Sr. was an American actor and director....

, Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...

, and Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Jean Menjou was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies, appearing in such films as The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, and A Star is Born...

. It was directed by Reginald Barker. The film was based upon a novel by Meredith M. Nicholson.

Plot

Grace Durland is a young debutante who is forced to leave college when her father goes bankrupt. While working for a living, she falls in love with Ward Trenton. As she reveals her love for a married man to her family, the reaction is very negative. Ward's evil wife refuses to grant him a divorce. This changes when he suffers a car accident.

Cast

• James Kirkwood
  James Kirkwood, Sr.
  James Kirkwood, Sr. was an American actor and director....
  
   - Ward Trenton
• Norma Shearer
  Norma Shearer
  Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...
  
   - Grace Durland
• Adolphe Menjou
  Adolphe Menjou
  Adolphe Jean Menjou was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies, appearing in such films as The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, and A Star is Born...
  
   - Tommy Kemp
• Mae Busch
  Mae Busch
  Mae Busch was an Australian film actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career, she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, where she frequently played Hardy's shrewish wife.-Early life and career:Born in Melbourne, Australia, Busch was...
  
   - Irene Kirby
• George Fawcett
  George Fawcett
  George Fawcett was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. On stage he appeared in such plays as Ghosts with the controversial Mary Shaw, The Squaw Man with William Faversham, The Great John Ganton with an up-and-coming actress Laurette Taylor in the cast and Getting A Polish with...
  
   - Mr. Durland
• Margaret McWade - Mrs. Durland
• Robert Agnew - Bobbie Durland
• Ruth Stonehouse
  Ruth Stonehouse
  Ruth Stonehouse was an actress and film director during the silent film era.-Early life and career:Ruth Stonehouse was born to James Wesley Stonehouse and Georgia C. Worster on September 28, 1892 in Denver, Colorado...
  
   - Ethel Durland
• Robert Frazer
  Robert Frazer
  rightRobert W. Frazer born Robert William Browne on 29 June 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts, US, was an American actor who appeared in some 224 shorts and films from the 1910s until his death on 17 August 1944 in Los Angeles, California, US, due to leukemia...
  
   - John Moore
• Winifred Bryson
  Winifred Bryson
  -Biography:She was married twice, first to actor Warner Baxter from 1918 until his death in 1951 and then to Ferdinand H. Manger. Bryson began to perform publicly in 1914, initially in the musical comedy stage, and in the drama Regeneration with Bert Lytell...
  
   - Mrs. Ward Trenton
• Vera Reynolds
  Vera Reynolds
  -Early life and career:Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1899, she started out as a dancer, worked as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and became a leading lady in silent motion pictures. Among her film credits are starring roles in Sam Wood's Prodigal Daughters , and Cecil B...
  
   - Sadie Denton
• Edythe Chapman
  Edythe Chapman
  Edythe Chapman , was an American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York. As early as 1898 she appeared in New York, New York in the Charity Ball. Edythe performed at the Shubert Theater in Brooklyn, New York in a production of The Light Eternal in 1907...
  
   - Beulah Reynolds
• George Kuwa
  George Kuwa
  George Kuwa was a Japanese and American Issei film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 58 films between 1916 and 1931...
  
  - Chang

External links

• Broken Barriers ; allrovi.com synopsis