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The Broadway Melody is an early musical motion picture, released on 1 February, 1929. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was the first musical motion picture released by the studio; over the next 30 years MGM would become the most popular producer of this genre of film entertainment.
The plot involves the romances of musical comedy stars. Anita Page and Bessie Love play sisters on Broadway both wooing the same man, played by Charles King . Love was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role. The film was written by Norman Houston and James Gleason from a story by Edmund Goulding and directed by Harry Beaumont . Original music for the film was written by Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown. The George M. Cohan classic "Give My Regards To Broadway" was also given its talkie debut in the film.
A silent film version was also released, for there were still many motion picture theaters without sound equiptment at the time. For showings in big-city theaters, some prints had sections in two-strip Technicolor.
The film was quite successful at the time, and is often considered the first complete example of the Hollywood musical. It was the top grossing picture of 1929, and won the Academy Award for Best PictureThe Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in for that year.
The movie was so popular, that three more movies with similar titles, Broadway Melody of 1936Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by MGM in 1935, despite the title. It was a followup to the successful The Broadway Melody which had been released in 1929. The thin plot involves two women plotting to see which one would star in a new B, Broadway Melody of 1938 and Broadway Melody of 1940 , were released by MGM. Although not sequels in the traditional sense, they all had the same basic premise of a group of people putting on a show. The original movie was also remade in 1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F as Two Girls on Broadway . Another Broadway Melody film was planned for 1942 (starring Gene KellyEugene Curran Kelley (born August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died February 2, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California after suffering two strokes at the age of 83), was best known as an American dancer in films, but was also an actor, singer, dire and Eleanor PowellEleanor Powell ( 21 November, 1912 11 February, 1982) was an American actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing. Eleanor Torrey Powell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. A dancer since childhood, she was disc) but production was cancelled at the last minute.
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