Goodbye Broadway

Goodbye Broadway

THEY WERE FULL OF FLASH - BUT NEVER FLUSH!

NR 1938 · 65 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy

Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.

Directed by Ray McCarey · Written by Roy Chanslor

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Alice Brady Molly Malloy
Charles Winninger Pat Malloy
Tom Brown Chuck Bradford
Dorothea Kent Jeanne Carlyle
Frank Jenks Harry Clark
Jed Prouty J.A. Higgins
Willie Best Jughead
Donald Meek Iradius P. Oglethorpe
Henry Roquemore Henry Swanzey

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