Genre Musical

Broadway Babies

Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy…

Broadway Scandals

Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O’Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme…

All Americans

People of all nations come to America, sing a native song and go into a “melting pot”. This scene was later used in King of Jazz (1930).

Sunny Side Up

Molly and Bee, sweet young ‘working girls,’ live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly’s idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won’t discourage…

The Broadway Melody

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…

Show Boat

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber’s book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed…

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