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Broadway Gondolier: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Louise Fazenda. Dick Purcell is an American taxi driver who wants to become a singer promoting cheese products.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Lloyd Bacon
- 1935-07-27
Language. United States. Budget. $397,000 [1] Box office. $1,119,000 [1] Broadway Gondolier ( 1935) is a musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film was released by Warner Bros., and featured Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou .
A rarely-seen confection from the height of Dick Powell's tenure as the preeminent boy crooner of the '30s on the Warner lot, Broadway Gondolier (1935) isn't terribly long on meaningful plot. What it does boast is a handful of catchy tunes penned by the prolific Hollywood songsmith Harry Warren, rendered with brio by Powell and the WB musical unit.
- Lloyd Bacon
- Dick Powell
"Broadway Gondolier" (Warner Brothers, 1935), directed by Lloyd Bacon, is a musical set in a radio station that could easily be a rehash to the studio's previous effort of "Twenty Million Sweethearts" (1934), starring Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers with a few new twists and turns this time around.
Singing Traffic Cop. James Burke. ... Uncle Andy. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Joseph E. Bernard. ... Studio Official (scenes deleted) Sybil Jason.
Broadway Gondolier doesn't care much about continuity and credulity--scenes seem to be missing. All the supporting cast are superb, especially Joan Blondell's grouchy secretary, Adolphe Menjou's Italian singing instructor, and the great Louise Fazenda, who plays a cheese mogul and radio program sponsor.
