The Broadway Melody

  • Music
  • Romance
  • Drama
2/8/1929
101
NR

All talking. All singing. All dancing.

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.

Revenue:
$4,358,000
Budget:
$379,000

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  • Geronimo1967

    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. Thats about as simple as the plot gets because quite swiftly he switches his allegiance to the other sister but shes 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 makes best use of his theatrical setting to intersperse this game of who is dating who with some quite well choreographed and scored song and dance routines in t...

    July 27, 2025

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