Broadway to Hollywood

1933
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1h 25m

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Alice Brady, Jackie Cooper, and Frank Morgan in Broadway to Hollywood (1933)

A vaudeville couple quit to raise a son, then come back with their grandson in the act.A vaudeville couple quit to raise a son, then come back with their grandson in the act.A vaudeville couple quit to raise a son, then come back with their grandson in the act.

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5.8/10

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Alice Brady

Lulu Hackett

Frank Morgan

Ted Hackett

Jackie Cooper

Ted Hackett Jr. as a Child

Russell Hardie

Ted Hackett Jr.

Madge Evans

Anne Ainsley

Mickey Rooney

Ted Hackett III as a Child

Eddie Quillan

Ted Hackett III

Jimmy Durante

Jimmy - Hollywood Character

Fay Templeton

Fay Templeton - Production Number Singer - Edited from The March of Time (1930)
(archive footage)

May Robson

Veteran Actress

Albertina Rasch Dancers

Dancing Ensemble - Edited from The March of Time (1930)
(archive footage)
(as Albertina Rasch Dancers)

Tad Alexander

Cousin David
(uncredited)

Sidney Bracey

Man in Balcony
(uncredited)

Edward Brophy

Joe Mannion
(uncredited)

Ruth Channing

Wanda
(uncredited)

William Collier Sr.

William Collier Sr. - Vaudeville Act
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Marie Dressler

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Claire Du Brey

Aunt Clara
(uncredited)

Directors
- Willard Mack
- Jules White
Writers
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Trivia
Nelson Eddy - 33 at the time - was required to do a screen test for the film). Eddy's test took 58 takes and even the best was determined to be awful. MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer overruled everyone and ordered that he be only used for a singing sequence in the film.

Quotes
Lulu Hackett: Actors haven't any more rights than other people. Anyway, I ain't crazy over actors.
Ted Hackett: Aww, don't say that, mama. It's a grand old profession.
Lulu Hackett: Yeah, I don't know about that. We're like monkeys climbing up and hanging by our tails, and the people outside the cages laugh and think it's funny. Yeah. Well, that's all right, so long as we don't quit amusing them.
Ted Hackett: Yeah, but we never quit. That's something performers don't do. They go on and on. They die, mother, but they don't quit.

Crazy credits
Intro: "New York in the late 80's. Its great variety hall and most popular place of entertainment - - Tony Pastor's Theatre - where the greatest celebrities known to the amusement world started their careers. Upon its historical old stage this story begins."

Connections
Edited from The March of Time (1930)

Soundtracks
When Old New York Was Young
(uncredited)
Music by Gus Edwards
Played during the opening credits

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7/10

Best Watched with Historical Perspective

I'm glad I read a previous review entitled "The back story is more interesting than the movie" because the background greatly enhanced the viewing experience. Speaking for myself, I love knowing facts of lives of actors and others surrounding any older film. And I think many of us watching these films have a bit of film historian in us.

There is a bit of obvious pre-code Hollywood at times, which time stamps the movie, and so many cast members became Hollywood legends. And offense taken by Buster Keaton is notable off-screen insight.

So, it depends on the lens you look through. The long-shot lens of this time capsule shows some tragedy, closeups show some comedy, as Chaplin once said about film making.

I enjoyed this. Frank Morgan, Mickey Rooney, Alice Brady, Jimmie Durante, Curly and Moe Howard, Jackie Cooper... footage from an unreleased musical that otherwise wouldn't have any use... so many careers and so much information floated the boat for what otherwise may have been a creaky ship of viewing.

I was entertained on several levels.