The Broadway Melody (1929)

NR02/08/1929Music, Romance, Drama1h 41m
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All talking. All singing. All dancing.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Charles King

    Eddie Kearns

  2. Cast 1

    Anita Page

    Queenie Mahoney

  3. Cast 1

    Bessie Love

    Harriet 'Hank' Mahoney

  4. Betty Arthur

    Chorus Dancer (uncredited)

  5. J. Emmett Beck

    Babe Hatrick (uncredited)

  6. Nacio Herb Brown

    Pianist (uncredited)

  7. James Burrows

    Singer (uncredited)

  8. Eddie Bush

    Quartet Guitarist and Singer (uncredited)

  9. Ray Cooke

    Bellhop (uncredited)

“Eddie” (Charles King) invites his girlfriend “Hank” (Bessie Love) and her sister “Queenie” (Anita Page) to join a show being staged by legendary producer “Zanfeld” (Eddie Kane) on Broadway. That’s about as simple as the plot gets because quite swiftly he switches his allegiance to the other sister but she’s a decent sort of gal and tries to return the attentions of socialite “Jock” (Kenneth Thomson). Those attentions are really only skin deep, though, and as we watch we all too readily realise where the real love story lies. Whilst all of this melodrama is playing out, director Harry Beaumont...