The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody

All talking. All singing. All dancing.

NR 1929 · 101 min · ★ 5.1 · Music, Romance, Drama

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 recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

Directed by Harry Beaumont · Written by Edmund Goulding

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