The Broadway Melody

"All talking. All singing. All dancing."

Jun 6 1929 Passed 1h 40m
Drama, Musical, Romance

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 Eddie is in love with her.

Plot

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. Eddie was in love with Hank, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Hank recognizes that Eddie is in love with Queenie.

Written by

Edmund Goulding, Norman Houston, James Gleason

Directed by

Harry Beaumont

Cast

Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

English

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 2 nominations total

Trailers
The Broadway Melody - 1929
Broadway Melody, by Harry Beaumont (1929) - Trailer
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