Walking Down Broadway

1938
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1h 15m

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Lynn Bari, Phyllis Brooks, Dixie Dunbar, Leah Ray, Jayne Regan, and Claire Trevor in Walking Down Broadway (1938)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueFive closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.

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5,9/10

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The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 confirms the participation of both Lon Chaney Jr. and Robert Lowery in this film; both of them were under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox at the time, and can be found in secondary roles in many other films produced at that studio before and after this one. However, they are not to be found in the 16mm 68 minute version which is all that's presently available, and the source of the currently marketed DVD. Since both AFI and Variety clocked the original 1938 release print at 75 minutes, there's a good chance that they're somewhere in those missing seven minutes.

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Featured in The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)

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Good-Bye My Heart (Good Luck to You)
Written by Sidney Clare and Harry Akst

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6/10

Fast paced soap opera programmer

1938's "Walking Down Broadway" is a Fox programmer directed at a fast clip by Norman Foster, who helmed six of the studio's eight 'Mr. Moto' features. Six showgirls become sad at the closing of "Manhattan Revue" on New Years Eve, so they make a pact to reunite in a year to celebrate their upcoming good fortune. Alas, not everyone will be available, as Sandra (Lynn Bari) is immediately struck down in the street after signing a new Hollywood contract. Tiny (Dixie Dunbar) continues in show business, while Joan (Claire Trevor) goes into fashion design, carefully watching over the mistakes made by the others. Jerry (Jayne Regan) is engaged to Tom (Thomas Beck), who only wants to marry her after becoming a financial success. Vicki (Phyllis Brooks) makes the mistake of juggling multiple boyfriends, one of whom is a notorious gambler (Leon Ames) who eventually winds up gunned down trying to collect a debt from another racketeer (Douglas Fowley), successfully framing chanteuse Linda Martin (Leah Ray) for the crime, leaving her young daughter in Joan's care. With six lead actresses and only 69 minutes it never gets dull, even when the melodramatics grow more absurd (someone has to have a happy ending!). Alas, not among the unbilled players are Lon Chaney and Robert Lowery, cast as delivery men, both ending up on the cutting room floor, nearly always side by side in Fox titles like "The Lady Escapes," "Wife, Doctor and Nurse," "Charlie Chan on Broadway," "Life Begins in College," "Second Honeymoon," "City Girl," "Happy Landing," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Josette," "Passport Husband," "Straight Place and Show," and John Ford's "Submarine Patrol" (Chaney alas found his roles deleted in "Love is News," "That I May Live," and "Born Reckless").