Bumping Into Broadway is a 1919 short comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 featuring Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the UCLA Film and Television Archive

UCLA Film and Television Archive

The UCLA Film and Television Archive is an internationally renowned visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles. It holds more than 220,000 film and television titles and 27 million feet of...

.

Storyline

After some witty observations on the glamour of the Broadway scene the film tells the story of "The Girl" and "The Boy", she a chorus line girl and he a writer. They are both struggling to make it big and have trouble paying their rent in a boarding house run by a stern landlady with a simian toughguy bailiff character. The Girl is fired and The Boy tries to get to the Musical Director to pitch his play. After rejection and numerous antics The Boy wins big in gaming and ends up with The Girl.

Cast

• Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
   - The Boy
• Bebe Daniels
  Bebe Daniels
  Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent movie era as a child actress, became a star in musicals like 42nd Street, and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain...
  
   - Actress
• Snub Pollard
  Snub Pollard
  Harry "Snub" Pollard was a silent film comedian, popular in the 1920s.-Career:Often mistaken as the brother of Australian actress Daphne Pollard, in fact the two were not related despite their shared surname. Harry Pollard was born as Harold Fraser and took the name Pollard as his stage name...
  
   - Stage Manager
• Roy Brooks - (uncredited)
• Sammy Brooks
  Sammy Brooks
  Sammy Brooks was an American film actor. He appeared in 218 films between 1916 and 1938. He was born in New York and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Berth Marks * Bromo and Juliet...
  
   - (uncredited)
• William Gillespie - Stage Door Johnnie (uncredited)
• Helen Gilmore
  Helen Gilmore
  Helen Gilmore was an American actress of the stage and silent motion pictures from Chicago, Illinois. She left acting to become a magazine editor.-Stock company player:...
  
   - Landlady (uncredited)
• Mark Jones - Evicted Boarder (uncredited)
• Dee Lampton
  Dee Lampton
  Dee Lampton was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 52 films between 1915 and 1920. He was one of the regulars in the Hal Roach crew of actors and was the heavy set character....
  
   - (uncredited)
• Gus Leonard
  Gus Leonard
  Gus Leonard was a French-born American film actor. He appeared in 150 films between 1916 and 1937.Modern audiences will recognize Leonard from his appearances in the Our Gang comedies Mush and Milk, Teacher's Beau and The Lucky Corner.Leonard died in Los Angeles, California on March 27,...
  
   - Desperate Woman (uncredited)
• Gaylord Lloyd - (uncredited)
• Fred C. Newmeyer
  Fred C. Newmeyer
  Fred C. Newmeyer was an American actor and film director. A native of Central City, Colorado, he is best known for directing a handful of films in the Our Gang series and for directing Harold Lloyd movies The Freshman and Girl Shy. Newmeyer also had an extensive directing and acting resume in...
  
   - (uncredited)
• Charles Stevenson - (uncredited)
• Noah Young
  Noah Young
  Noah Young Jr. was a former champion weightlifter who joined the Hal Roach studios as an actor, mainly playing comic villains. He appeared in several Laurel and Hardy comedies but was more notable as a foil for Harold Lloyd, whom he supported in over 50 films...
  
  - Bouncer (uncredited)