Broadway Babies

"Jig Jig Jigaloo"

Jan 20 1930 Passed 1h 26m
Drama, Musical

Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.

Plot

Dee lives with her two girlfriends in a boarding house. Billy is in love with Dee and runs the show where Dee is in the chorus. He has Dee stepping from the chorus to featured dancer. Gessant is a importer and gambler from Detroit. A gang is trying to keep him in town to fleece him and they use Dee as bait. He is introduced to Dee after her show and she and her friends go out with Gessant and his gambling buddies only because Dee is mad at Billy. Gessant helps her get another job as headliner at the New Moon Club. Billy and Dee break up over this job and Gessant falls for Dee. But Billy still loves Dee and Gessant loves Dee and Dee must choose who she wants.

Written by

Jay Gelzer, Monte M. Katterjohn, Humphrey Pearson

Directed by

Mervyn LeRoy

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

The Vitaphone Corporation, First National Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
261
Average Rating
6.1 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA