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The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Broadway Melody: Directed by Harry Beaumont. With Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Eddie Kane. A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
Warner Bros. Entertainment. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pulls out all the stops for its first talking motion picture, setting a new standard for big-budget films and establishing an archetype f...
The Broadway Melody (1929), which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater on February 1st, 1929, was MGM's first all-talking picture.
Vaudeville sisters "Hank" (Bessie Love) and Queenie Mahoney (Anita Page) take their act to the Broadway stage in New York when Eddie (Charles King), a professional song-and-dance man appearing in...
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Dec 12, 2020 · The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical. On Charles King from Wikipedia: In late 1928, like many of his musical theatre ...
Feb 28, 2015 · Released in February of 1929, The Broadway Melody was billed as the first all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing motion picture. Timing is everything, as they say, and it’s fascinating to note that this frothy, sentimental, backstage entertainment came out a mere eight months before the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began.
