The Broadway Melody (MGM - 100min)
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Starring Anita Page, Bessie Love, and Charles King
Genre: Musical, Romance
Hank (nee Harriet) and Queenie Mahoney, a sister vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Hank, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jacques Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jacques nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Harriet recognizes, that Eddie is in love with Queenie.
Trivia: First "talkie" to win Best Picture. It did not win any other Oscars that year.
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