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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.
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.
The Broadway Melody (1929), which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater on February 1st, 1929, was MGM's first all-talking picture.
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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A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt. Hank and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows.
May 5, 2019 · The Broadway Melody (1929) was not only Hollywood’s first full-length talking musical, but also the first sound film and movie musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Talking, Singing and Dancing Dramatic Sensation!
Feb 28, 2015 · Released in February of 1929, The Broadway Melody was billed as the first all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing motion picture. Timing is everything, as they say, and it’s fascinating to note that this frothy, sentimental, backstage entertainment came out a mere eight months before the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began.
Aug 11, 2021 · Called a “talkie,” dramatic Broadway stage acts and chorus lines were shown to the masses across America for the first time. Released during the boom that preceded the Great Depression, The Broadway Melody brought the most popular Broadway stars and acts to the big screen.
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.
The Broadway Melody (1929) In director Harry Beaumont's Best Picture (or Best Production)-winning backstage dance/musical - the first musical and sound feature to win the top award - a series of Broadway Melody sequels followed that stretched out to 1940 (the final film starred Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell).
