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Broadway 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 Broadway musical. The film starred Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Una Merkel, Buddy Ebsen and June Knight .The film was written by Harry W. Conn , Moss Hart, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers . It was directed by Roy Del Ruth and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Powell became a major MGM musical star as a result of this picture, and would appear in the next two entries in the Broadway Melody series: Broadway Melody of 1938 and Broadway Melody of 1940 .
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