Broadways melodi
Also known as Broadway Melody
film från 1929 regisserad av Harry Beaumont
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"The Broadway Melody" is a 1929 film directed by Harry Beaumont that depicts the lives and ambitions of performers in New York's theater district. It is historically significant as the first musical film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, marking an early milestone in cinema's embrace of the musical genre.
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5.2The 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 recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Released: 1929-02-08101 minDir: Harry BeaumontMusic, Romance, DramaBudget: $379,000Box office: $4.4MPart of: The Broadway Melody Collection
Cast
- Charles King as Eddie Kearns
- Anita Page as Queenie Mahoney
- Bessie Love as Harriet 'Hank' Mahoney
- Betty Arthur as Chorus Dancer (uncredited)
- J. Emmett Beck as Babe Hatrick (uncredited)
- Nacio Herb Brown as Pianist (uncredited)
Themes
Article · Svenska
Broadways melodi (engelska: The Broadway Melody) är en amerikansk musikalfilm från 1929 i regi av . Filmen producerades av Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer och var företagets första musikal. Filmen var den första ljudfilmen någonsin att vinna en Oscar för bästa film.
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