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The Broadway Melody (1929) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
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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
A list of 35 actors and 15 crew members who worked on the 1929 musical film The Broadway Melody, directed by Harry Rapf and produced by Irving Thalberg. The film features songs by Nacio Herb Brown and music by Nacio Herb Brown and Douglas Shearer. See the names, roles, and photos of the cast and crew members.
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that ...
The Broadway Melody won an Academy Award for best picture, the first talking picture to receive the award. Within the next ten years, MGM made three other films with a similar title and plot (Broadway Melody of 1936, Broadway Melody of 1938, & Broadway Melody of 1940) and remade the original 1929 version in 1940 as Two Girls on Broadway.
Learn more about the full cast of The Broadway Melody with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide. ... Cast & Crew; The Broadway Melody - Full Cast & Crew. 1929; 1 hr 50 mins
