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Broadway melody

Additional authors: Goulding, Edmund, -- 1891-1959. -- aus | Freed, Arthur, -- 1894-1973. -- lyr | Brown, Nacio Herb, -- 1896-1964. -- cmp | Houston, Norman. -- aus | Gleason, James, -- 1886-1959. -- aus | Beaumont, Harry, -- 1888-1966. -- drt | King, Charles, -- 1889-1944. -- act | Page, Anita, -- 1910-2008. -- act | Love, Bessie. -- act | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. | Loew's Incorporated. | Turner Entertainment Co. | Warner Home Video (Firm)
Edition statement:Special ed. Published by : Turner Entertainment Co. : | Distributed by Warner Home Video, (Burbank, CA :) Physical details: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. ISBN:0790748347; 9780790748344.
Subject(s): Sisters -- Drama. | Entertainers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama. | Man-woman relationships -- Drama. | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama. | Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama. | Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama. | New York (N.Y.) -- Drama. | Feature films. | Romantic comedy films. | Drama. | Fiction films. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | Musical films.
Year: 2005
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Videos/Films Book Cart Bro (Browse shelf) Available State Grant in Aid 107708

Special features: Dogway Melody [featurette] (16 min.); Metro Movietone Revues (#1-4, #7) [featurette] (72 min.); Musical: Van & Schenck [featurette] (5 min.); Broadway trailer gallery [Previews] (13 min.).

Credits -- "Broadway Melody" (I) -- Queenie and Hank -- Uncle Jed's offer -- "Broadway Melody" (II) -- Audition sabotage -- Sister team -- Backstage nerves -- "Broadway Melody" (III) -- "Love Boat" -- Raves for Queenie -- It's not a date -- Giving girls a ring -- "You Were Meant for Me" -- No mood to party -- "Truthful Parson Brown" -- Birthday bracelet -- What Queenie wants -- "Wedding of the Painted Doll" -- "Boy Friend" -- Lovers' quarrel -- Fighting for Queenie -- Offer taken -- Queenie's choice -- "Born Troupers" -- "Harmony Babies" hits the road -- Cream in the can.

Educational and home use only.

Photography, John Arnold; art director, Cedric Gibbons; editor, Sam S. Zimbalist ; wardrobe, David Cox.

Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love.

Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1929.

The Broadway Melody offers snarky, wiseacre humor, and effervescent charm. The Mahoney Sisters are successful singers in the boondocks, and now they've come to New York for the big time. Hank (Henrietta) is the smart one, while Queenie is the beautiful one--as Hank's fiance Eddie Kearns says, they're "a coupla swell kids." Songwriter Eddie gets the girls a part in a revue featuring his song, "The Broadway Melody." Eddie, long engaged to Hank, falls for Queenie, whom he hasn't seen since she was a little girl. But Eddie and Queenie are both devoted to Hank, so Queenie gives in to the wooing of one of the show's rich backers, so as not to come between Hank and Eddie. This only causes more trouble, because both Hank and Eddie know exactly what kind of danger Queenie is courting by putting herself in a playboy's hands.

MPAA rating: Not rated; Canadian Home Video Rating: Rated G.

DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital mono.; standard presentation preserving the 1.20:1 aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned.

Academy Awards, 1930: Best Picture.

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