• Thumbnail for The Broadway Melody
    The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award...
    20 KB (2,429 words) - 21:18, 22 May 2024
  • Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 American musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film is essentially a backstage...
    9 KB (1,099 words) - 11:21, 14 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Broadway Melody of 1940
    Broadway Melody of 1940 is a 1940 MGM film musical starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy (Astaire's first male dancing partner on film)...
    10 KB (1,218 words) - 07:32, 12 May 2024
  • Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935. In New York, the film opened at the Capitol Theatre, the site of many...
    8 KB (851 words) - 02:48, 4 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Singin' in the Rain
    of "The Broadway Melody" from The Broadway Melody (1929) and "Broadway Rhythm" from Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935). The music for the "Broadway Ballet"...
    60 KB (6,740 words) - 14:41, 30 May 2024
  • clipping historicimages.com Melody Kay at IMDb Melody Kay - Melody Kay also served in The Secret Garden musical on Broadway as the understudy of Mary Lennox...
    2 KB (115 words) - 08:46, 16 October 2023
  • previous winner The Broadway Melody, but beyond the title and some music, the two films have mutually independent stories. The Silence of the Lambs was adapted...
    128 KB (5,006 words) - 22:36, 2 June 2024
  • Michael (April 28, 1972). "The Actress and the Four-Letter Cliche". The Guardian. London. p. 13. As the elder sister in Broadway Melody she got an Oscar nomination...
    14 KB (741 words) - 21:14, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eleanor Powell
    Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), Rosalie (1937), and Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940). She retired from films in the mid-1940s but resurfaced for the occasional...
    26 KB (3,596 words) - 19:05, 14 June 2024
  • Kelly (1940) the main title sequence from Singin' in the Rain (1952) sung by Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor "The Broadway Melody" - Charles...
    29 KB (3,044 words) - 17:15, 20 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bessie Love
    Bessie Love (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    radio, and television—and her performance in The Broadway Melody (1929) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Love was born...
    40 KB (3,890 words) - 02:06, 24 May 2024
  • 4:23 and "Broadway Melody of 1974" at 0:33, an error by the manufacturer as "Broadway Melody of 1974" begins at 2:47 of "Fly on a Windshield". The lyrics...
    58 KB (6,826 words) - 21:09, 23 May 2024
  • (2021) Broadway Bill (1934) Broadway Danny Rose (1984) Broadway Melody series: The Broadway Melody (1929) Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936) Broadway Melody of...
    145 KB (11,756 words) - 20:56, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roy Del Ruth
    and helmed the backstage showbiz musical Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) for MGM, starring Jack Benny and Eleanor Powell. After returning to the realm of...
    10 KB (1,137 words) - 11:26, 31 May 2024
  • musicals, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End musicals, as well as film and television musicals, whose titles fall into the A–L alphabetic range...
    268 KB (1,732 words) - 12:42, 11 June 2024
  • Broadway Hoofer The Broadway Melody Broadway Scandals Close Harmony The Cock-Eyed World The Cocoanuts Dance Hall The Dance of Life The Desert Song Devil-May-Care...
    98 KB (7,894 words) - 18:29, 16 June 2024
  • nominations, the most of the year, Mutiny on the Bounty became the last film to date to win Best Picture and nothing else (following The Broadway Melody and Grand...
    18 KB (456 words) - 14:44, 26 April 2024
  • as Sally Burke in Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935). After the success of Broadway Melody of 1936, the studio decided to separate the Ebsens. Vilma Ebsen...
    8 KB (806 words) - 13:07, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anita Page
    we're going to be 'The Galloping Grandmothers' at the rate we're going with these pictures," she reminisced in 1993. The Broadway Melody (1929) is considered...
    18 KB (1,515 words) - 08:21, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bimbo
    questionable virtue. The 1930 silent film Desert Nights uses it to describe a wealthy female crook, and in The Broadway Melody, an angry Bessie Love...
    9 KB (951 words) - 15:04, 10 June 2024
  • Del Ruth. The film was originally announced as Broadway Melody of 1944 to follow MGM's Broadway Melody films of 1929, 1936, 1938, and 1940. It was originally...
    5 KB (473 words) - 23:56, 11 January 2024
  • The Dogway Melody is a 1930 comedy short film that recreates scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The entire cast is trained...
    2 KB (170 words) - 18:59, 30 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for 1920s
    White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)." The Broadway Melody: p. 24. "The Broadway Melody with a negative cost of $379,000, grossed $2.8 million in the United...
    64 KB (6,230 words) - 12:36, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of highest-grossing films
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)." The Broadway Melody: p. 24 Archived April 4, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. "The Broadway Melody with a negative...
    339 KB (24,415 words) - 19:48, 16 June 2024
  • = 2,859 in total Films with the most awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) each earned 11 Academy...
    107 KB (635 words) - 18:30, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Greatest Show on Earth (film)
    of the 90 films to win Best Picture (ahead of only 1929's The Broadway Melody). Stanley Kramer alleged that the film's Best Picture Oscar was the result...
    26 KB (2,908 words) - 03:15, 28 April 2024
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (category Film distributors of the United States)
    One of the shorts, The Dogway Melody (1930), spoofed MGM's hit 1929 musical The Broadway Melody. MGM entered the music industry by purchasing the "Big Three"...
    194 KB (18,902 words) - 16:12, 15 June 2024
  • synchronized sound is on. February 1 – The Broadway Melody is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators...
    48 KB (4,704 words) - 19:45, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Lost Weekend
    The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's...
    21 KB (2,528 words) - 06:47, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Hollywood Revue
    another Irving Thalberg MGM production, The Broadway Melody. Due to being a film published in 1929, it will enter the public domain on January 1, 2025. Unlike...
    14 KB (1,572 words) - 00:46, 8 May 2024