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MGM, 1929. Directed by
Harry Beaumont. Camera: John Arnold. With
Anita Page,
Bessie Love, Charles King, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson, Edward Dillon,
Mary Doran, Eddie Kane, J. Emmett Beck, Marshall Ruth, Drew Demarest, Nacio
Herb Brown, James Burrows, Ray Cooke, Arthur Freed, James Gleason, Carla
Laemmle, Eddie Lang, Joyce Murray. |
Eddie, a smalltime vaudeville hoofer, writes a hit
song and is hired by Broadway producer Zanfield to perform in one of
his revues. Having long been in love with "Hank" Mahoney, the
older member of a vaudeville sister act, Eddie persuades her to
leave her current show and come to New York with her sister, Queenie.
Eddie soon transfers his attentions to Queenie,
however, and she becomes the mistress of one of Zanfield's backers
in order to keep Eddie and Hank together. Hank later discovers
that Eddie and her sister are in love and persuades Eddie to take
Queenie away from the backer. Eddie and Queenie get together,
and Hank, finding a new "sister" for her act, returns to tank-town
vaudeville.
Notes
Music included: "The
Wedding of the Painted Doll," "Broadway Melody," "Love
Boat," "Boy Friend," and "You Were Meant for Me,"
music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed; "Give My
Regards to Broadway," music and lyrics by George M. Cohan; "Truthful
Deacon Brown," music and lyrics by Willard Robison.
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