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Broadway is a 1929 film directed by Paul Fejos from the 1926 play of the same name by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E. Jackson. This was Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences.
Broadway: Directed by Pál Fejös. With Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson. A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
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- Crime, Music, Romance
- Pál Fejös
- 1929-09-15
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.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Harry Beaumont
- 1929-06-06
Mar 27, 2023 · https://web.archive.org/web/20230327134012/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_%281929_film%29 Notes Produced as an all-talkie, it has inventive camera work that contrasts considerably against other, mostly static, musicals of the 1928-30 period.
The Broadway Melody (1929), which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater on February 1st, 1929, was MGM's first all-talking picture. According to Magill's Survey of Cinema , "It set the entire attitude toward filmmaking in that year, and in 1929 alone no fewer than seventy-five musicals were released."
For a film made in 1929, Paul Fejos' Broadway is a technical marvel. In order to combat the static shots typical of early sound films, Fejos developed a special crane that could move the unwieldy camera 600 feet per minute, bringing back the kinetic camera techniques developed during the silent age. 600 feet per minute?
