Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
- Vincitore di 1 Oscar
- 5 vittorie e 2 candidature totali
- Chorus Girls
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- Chorus Dancer
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- Pianist
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- Singer
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- Quartet Guitarist and Singer
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- Chorus Girl
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- Turpe - Costumer
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- Dillon - Stage Manager
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- Flo
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- Bystander in Rehearsal Room
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Best Picture Winners by Year
Best Picture Winners by Year
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- QuizA silent version was also released, as many cinemas hadn't yet acquired sound equipment in 1929.
- BlooperThe guitar player in the song "Broadway Melody" cannot be heard playing until he tilts his guitar slightly (possibly towards the mic).
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Eddie Kearns: Hank, did you see Queenie? What's the matter Hank, aren't ya happy? Wasn't Queenie great? Aren't ya proud of her?
Hank Mahoney: Oh, of course, Eddie. I'm glad to see her make good. Oh, but, gee, we ain't never had to get by on our legs before.
Eddie Kearns: Oh, that don't mean nothin', Hank. Those guys are not going to pay ten bucks to look at your face; this is Broadway!
Hank Mahoney: Yeah, "Broad's way!"
- Versioni alternativeThe "Wedding of the Painted Doll" musical sequence was originally presented in Technicolor. All color prints of this sequence are lost, so later reissues and DVD release present the sequence in black and white.
- ConnessioniEdited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
- Colonne sonoreThe Broadway Melody
(1929) (uncredited)
Music by Nacio Herb Brown
Lyrics by Arthur Freed
Played during the opening credits and often in the score
Performed many times by various cast including Nacio Herb Brown (piano), Charles King,
Anita Page, Bessie Love and chorus girls
Everybody was overacting that year, you ought to see Mary Pickford's Best Actress performance in this same year. In fact she beat out Bessie Love who did a very good job as one of the aspiring Mahoney sisters for stardom on the Great White Way.
Bessie Love and Anita Page play the Mahoney Sisters who come to Broadway after being sent for by an old friend Charles King. King's had his eye on Love, but now little sister Page is all grown up. And she's also attracting Broadway wolf, Kenneth Thomson.
Charles King was a popular Broadway leading man of the day, his career going back to 1908 there. Such people as George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, and Vincent Youmans had songs introduced by him. King had a nice singing and dancing act. He never really took to the big screen, but introducing Broadway Melody and You Were Meant For Me should qualify him for some screen immortality.
The plot is your usual backstage story, but the greatness of Broadway Melody was the singing and dancing. The possibilities of the screen musical hadn't been fully explored, it would take Busby Berkeley to do that in a few years. In its numbers Broadway Melody is a photographed stage musical.
But not a bad one at that. And our second Best Picture Oscar.
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- 1 dic 2008
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- 379.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 40 minuti
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