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Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935. In New York, the film opened at the Capitol Theatre, the site of many prestigious MGM premieres.
Broadway Melody of 1936: Directed by Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke. With Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Una Merkel. A Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist.
When Broadway producer Robert Gordon (Robert Taylor) struggles to finance his new show, a wealthy widow, Lillian Brent (June Knight), offers him an idea: cast her and she will fund the...
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Mar 13, 2020 · Nominated for two 1935 Oscars ® (Best Picture and Best Original Story) and winner of one (Best Dance Direction), this film made Powell an overnight star, made musical numbers like "You Are My ...
The second of four Broadway Melody musicals, Broadway Melody of 1936 is considered by many the best in the MGM series, thanks largely to a sparkling performance from tap dancer Eleanor Powell in her first major role in a big-budget movie.
Jan 17, 2018 · Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) Musical · Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show, but he is short of money. He gets an offer of money by the young widow Lilian, if she can dance in his...
The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to MGM's early-talkie triumph Broadway Melody (1929). Jack Benny is atypically cast as a Walter Winchell type who carries on a feud with Broadway producer Robert Taylor.
Story. Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secretary certainly does.
What happens with the show is affected by columnist and radio personality Bert Keeler - the voice of Broadway - who is ordered by his boss to report on more salacious activities on the Great White Way than the warm fuzzies he is used to reporting.
Broadway Melody of 1936. Golden Globe-winner Jack Benny (TV's "The Jack Benny Show," "To Be or Not to Be") plays an ambitious Broadway columnist who uses an innocent dancer to frame a producer.
