On The Broad Stairway, from Edison Studios, was a 1913 American silent film (short) written and directed by J. Searle Dawley.Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series By Library of Congress. Copyright Office – 1913 pg. 277 The film was the second of three "Kate Kirby's Cases" detective tales produced in 1913 before Dawley and actress Laura Sawyer left Edison to continue the series later that year with the Famous Players Film Company. On The Broad Stairway was released in the United States on July 19, 1913.The Moving Picture World, Volume 18, Issues 1-7 – 1913, pg. 360The Moving Picture World, Volume 17, Issues 1-6, 1913, pg.537
Plot Described as "being another of 'Kate Kirby's Cases', a series of detective stories", the plot summary in The Edison Kinetogram was:
Cast Source: May Abbey as Marguerite Osborn, the bride's older sister Robert Brewer as Inspector Dalton Bigelow Cooper as Philip Morton, the groom Bessie Learn as Alice Osborn, the bride Charles Ogle as Kate's father, an ex-detective Laura Sawyer as Detective Kate Kirby
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Kate Kirby's cases The Diamond Crown. (Edison – 1913) On the Broad Stairway. (Edison – 1913) The Substitute Stenographer. (Edison – 1913) Chelsea 7750. (Famous Players - 1913) An Hour Before Dawn. (Famous Players - 1913) The Port of Doom. (Famous Players - 1913)
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