The Broadway Melody(Movie, 1929)

Name: The Broadway Melody
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 1929
Duration: T01:40:00
Rating: 2.6

1h 40min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 2.6/5 (with 53 votes)

The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the early musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today, the Technicolor sequence survives only in black and white. The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical. The Broadway Melody was written by Norman Houston and James Gleason from a story by Edmund Goulding, and directed by Harry Beaumont. Original music was written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, including the popular hit "You Were Meant for Me". The George M. Cohan classic "Give My Regards to Broadway" is used under the opening establishing shots of New York City, its film debut. Bessie Love was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Due to being a film published in 1929, it will enter the public domain on January 1, 2025. ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Broadway Melody

Academy Award for Best Picture nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture

About 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 already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

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Trailer for The Broadway Melody + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Broadway Melody, by Harry Beaumont (1929) - Trailer(Trailer, 4:21)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New York City (NYC)

Made by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 14 languages: Czech (CS), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 02/08/1929

Cast: Anita Page, Charles King, Bessie Love, Edward Dillon, Carla Laemmle, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson

Director: Harry Beaumont

Producer: Irving Thalberg, Lawrence Weingarten

Screenwriter: James Gleason, Edmund Goulding

Film Editor: Sam Zimbalist

Director of Photography: John Arnold

Composer: Nacio Herb Brown

Production Designer: Cedric Gibbons

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Melodia na Broadway"

Keywords: early sound film, partially lost film, new york city, wisecrack humor, vaudeville, singer, musical, broadway show, pre-code

Budget: 379,000 USD

Revenue: 4,358,000 USD (= 1,150%)

Color: Black & White (B/W)