Bessie Love
Hank Mahoney
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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.It was one of the early 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.
A musical comedy about two sisters who try to make it big on Broadway, with romance and rivalry. The film was MGM's first all-talking picture and the first sound film to win the Best Picture Oscar.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Harry Beaumont
- 1929-06-06
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...
A vaudeville sister act faces a dilemma when one falls in love with a wealthy producer and the other with a songwriter. Watch the film, see photos and videos, and learn more about the cast and crew of this first all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing movie.
- Harry Beaumont
- Anita Page
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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- Bessie Love
- Harry Beaumont
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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A vaudeville act of sisters tries to make it big on Broadway, but their romance and career are complicated by jealousy and betrayal. Read the full plot outline, synopsis, and cast and crew information for this early musical film.
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. It was one of the early 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 survives only ...
