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Name: The Broadway Melody
Released: 1929-6-6
Cast: Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson

The Broadway Melody

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1h 44m
1929

42%

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pulls out all the stops for its first talking motion picture, setting a new standard for big-budget films and establishing an archetype for decades of movie musicals to follow in The Broadway Melody. The Great White Way truly becomes the Street of Broken Dreams when sisters Queenie and Hank Mahoney (Anita Page and Bessie Love) follow Hank's boyfriend, Eddie Kearns (Charles King), to Manhattan with visions of stardom. In New York, Eddie and Queenie are attracted to each other, but unwilling to betray her sister, Queenie dates a feckless cad. Now, Hank must sort out the tangle of aspirations and emotions that form this tragic love triangle.

Director:

Harry Beaumont

Producer:

Pandro S. Berman

Cast:

Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson, Edward Dillon, Mary Doran, Marshall Ruth, Drew Demarest

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

42%

Critics Consensus: The Broadway Melody is interesting as an example of an early Hollywood musical, but otherwise, it's essentially bereft of appeal for modern audiences.

Reviews

Baltimore Sun

Robert F. Sisk

See The Broadway Melody. Your informant has a sneaking idea that it will mark some sort of an epoch in picture making. Its very delving into the musical comedy field and the success of its effort make such a supposition reasonable.

Though derided by some as a hopelessly outdated relic, the first musical Oscar winner for Best Picture remains a surprisingly gritty and daring romantic triangle story.

[It's] filled with those stupendous sets which the movies produce from time to time just to show Ziegfeld that he is still in the amateur class but the dialogue, story, and music all sound very, very familiar. Broadway Melody is off-key most of the time.

A creaky pre-Code feature that nevertheless set the template for many of the musicals that followed over the course of the next couple of decades.

Melody is a bloated, silly vaudevillian act that is hard to believe was anything more than song and dance entertainment at a time where talkies were still new and exciting.

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Genre:Comedy
Release Date:June 6, 1929
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
Stereo

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