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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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    of "The Broadway Melody" from The Broadway Melody (1929) and "Broadway Rhythm" from Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935). The music for the "Broadway Ballet"...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • (2021) Broadway Bill (1934) Broadway Danny Rose (1984) Broadway Melody series: The Broadway Melody (1929) Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936) Broadway Melody of...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    questionable virtue. The 1929 silent film Desert Nights uses it to describe a wealthy female crook, and in The Broadway Melody, an angry Bessie Love...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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"...
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    Irving Thalberg (category Producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award)
    Races (1937) Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) The Good Earth (1937) Marie Antoinette (1938) The Trap (1922) The Dangerous Little Demon (1922) The Play of Everyman...
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    career in Broadway Melody of 1936. He also appeared as a dancer with child star Shirley Temple in Captain January (1936). He was cast to appear in The Wizard...
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  • = 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • The English Patient is a 1996 epic romantic war drama directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Michael...
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  • loosely based on the real-life Boston Winter Hill Gang; the character Colin Sullivan is based on the corrupt FBI agent John Connolly, while the character Frank...
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