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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)
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《红伶秘史》（英語：The Broadway Melody；又名《百老汇之歌》）是一部美国歌舞电影，它获得了1930年的奥斯卡最佳影片奖。这是第二部获得奥斯卡最佳电影的影片，也是第一部获得这个奖项的有声电影，同时它也是米高梅出品的第一部大型歌舞电影。在本片中，米高梅雇佣了两名音乐人谱曲，这也是历史第一次专门为一部电影创作乐曲。在接下来的十年里，米高梅拍摄了3部标题和剧情同本片极为接近的电影。1940年时米高梅重新翻拍了本片。
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