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Broadway melody

The Broadway Melody offers snarky, wiseacre humor, and effervescent charm. The Mahoney Sisters are successful singers in the boondocks, and now they've come to New York for the big time. Hank (Henrietta) is the smart one, while Queenie is the beautiful one--as Hank's fiancé Eddie Kearns says, they're "a coupla swell kids." Songwriter Eddie gets the girls a part in a revue featuring his song, "The Broadway Melody." Eddie, long engaged to Hank, falls for Queenie, whom he hasn't seen since she was a little girl. But Eddie and Queenie are both devoted to Hank, so Queenie gives in to the wooing of one of the show's rich backers, so as not to come between Hank and Eddie. This only causes more trouble, because both Hank and Eddie know exactly what kind of danger Queenie is courting by putting herself in a playboy's hands.

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  • "Melodía de Broadway"

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  • "The Broadway Melody offers snarky, wiseacre humor, and effervescent charm. The Mahoney Sisters are successful singers in the boondocks, and now they've come to New York for the big time. Hank (Henrietta) is the smart one, while Queenie is the beautiful one--as Hank's fiancé Eddie Kearns says, they're "a coupla swell kids." Songwriter Eddie gets the girls a part in a revue featuring his song, "The Broadway Melody." Eddie, long engaged to Hank, falls for Queenie, whom he hasn't seen since she was a little girl. But Eddie and Queenie are both devoted to Hank, so Queenie gives in to the wooing of one of the show's rich backers, so as not to come between Hank and Eddie. This only causes more trouble, because both Hank and Eddie know exactly what kind of danger Queenie is courting by putting herself in a playboy's hands."@en
  • "In the screen's first musical, chorus girls try to make it big on Broadway."
  • ""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"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930."@en
  • ""The Broadway Melody is a film milestone. It's the first all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing movie. It's the first musical to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. And it ushered in a thirty year celebration of a uniquely American art form: the movie musical"--Cassette cover. The Broadway Melody is a story of two talented sisters in love with the same man."
  • "The first all-musical film tells the story of two sisters striving to make a career on Broadway and also resolving the conflict of being in love with the same man."
  • "The first all-musical film tells the story of the life of two sisters striving to make a career on Broadway and also resolving the conflict of being in love with the same man."@en
  • ""The Broadway Melody is a film milestone. It's the first all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing movie. It's the first musical to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. And it ushered in a thirty year celebration of a uniquely American art form: the movie musical"-- Cassette cover. The Broadway Melody is a story of two talented sisters in love with the same man."

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  • "Romance films"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Films for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Musical films"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Features"@en
  • "Musicals"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Dance"@en
  • "Comedy films"@en

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  • "Broadway melody"
  • "Broadway melody"@en
  • "The Broadway Melody"
  • "The Broadway Melody"@en
  • "Broadway melody (Motion Picture : 1929)"@en
  • "Broadway melody (Motion picture : 1929)"@en
  • "The Broadway melody"@en
  • "The Broadway melody"
  • "The Broadway melody La melodia de Broadway"

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