The Broadway Melody

About The Broadway Melody

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society.

Harry Beaumont's The Broadway Melody is a 1929 music romance film. Its themes are singer, sister sister relationship, dancing, and pre-code.

Charles King stars as Eddie Kearns, Anita Page as Queenie Mahoney, Bessie Love as Harriet 'Hank' Mahoney, and Betty Arthur as Chorus Dancer (uncredited). Released in February 1929, it runs 101 minutes.

The screenplay is by Edmund Goulding. It is part of The Broadway Melody Collection.

Gold Diggers of 1937, Wicked, and There's No Business Like Show Business make useful companions to The Broadway Melody, all filed under broadway show, chorus girl, and dancing girls. TMDB voters put it at 5.1 out of 10 across 182 votes and it carries a NR rating.