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The Broadway Melody is a american film of genre Drama directed by Harry Beaumont released in USA on 6 june 1929 with Charles King

The Broadway Melody (1929)

The Broadway Melody
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Released in USA 6 june 1929
Length 1h50
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Musical theatre,    Musical,    Romance
Rating55% 2.797422.797422.797422.797422.79742

The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is an American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today the Technicolor sequence is presumed lost and only a black and white copy survives in the complete film. The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical.

The Broadway Melody was written by Norman Houston and James Gleason from a story by Edmund Goulding, and directed by Harry Beaumont. Original music was written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, including the popular hit "You Were Meant For Me". The George M. Cohan classic "Give My Regards To Broadway" is used under the opening establishing shots of New York City, its film debut. Bessie Love was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.

Synopsis

The plot involves the romances of musical comedy stars, set against the backstage hubbub of a Broadway revue. Anita Page and Bessie Love play a vaudeville sister act who have come to New York for their big break on Broadway. Charles King plays the song-and-dance man whose affection for one sister (Harriet alias Hank) is supplanted by his growing love for the younger, more beautiful sister (Queenie). Queenie tries to protect her sister and derail the love triangle by dating a wealthy but unscrupulous "stage door Johnny."

Actors

Charles King

(Eddie Kearns)Charles King

(Eddie Kearns)Anita Page

(Queenie Mahoney)Bessie Love

(Hank Mahoney)Jed Prouty

(Uncle Jed (uncredited))
And :
James Gleason
Edward Dillon
James Burrows
William Demarest
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