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Bessie Love

 
 
 
 
 

THE BROADWAY MELODY

 

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.

American Film Institute Catalog

 
   
 
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