The Broadway Melody 1929 123movies

Watch: The Broadway Melody 1929 123movies, Full Movie Online – Hank and Queenie Mahoney, a 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 Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Hank recognizes that Eddie is in love with Queenie..
Plot: 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. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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	5.6/10 Votes: 7,374
	42% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 94 Popularity: 7.066 | TMDB

Reviews:

“No Skies Of Gray On The Great White Way”
Even though the occasional subtitle appears like training wheels on a bicycle with The Broadway Melody sound had finally arrived to tell the story of a movie. Though the movies had learned to talk, the players hadn’t quite gotten down acting with a microphone instead of exaggerated gestures to make a point.

Everybody was overacting that year, you ought to see Mary Pickford’s Best Actress performance in this same year. In fact she beat out Bessie Love who did a very good job as one of the aspiring Mahoney sisters for stardom on the Great White Way.

Bessie Love and Anita Page play the Mahoney Sisters who come to Broadway after being sent for by an old friend Charles King. King’s had his eye on Love, but now little sister Page is all grown up. And she’s also attracting Broadway wolf, Kenneth Thomson.

Charles King was a popular Broadway leading man of the day, his career going back to 1908 there. Such people as George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, and Vincent Youmans had songs introduced by him. King had a nice singing and dancing act. He never really took to the big screen, but introducing Broadway Melody and You Were Meant For Me should qualify him for some screen immortality.

The plot is your usual backstage story, but the greatness of Broadway Melody was the singing and dancing. The possibilities of the screen musical hadn’t been fully explored, it would take Busby Berkeley to do that in a few years. In its numbers Broadway Melody is a photographed stage musical.

But not a bad one at that. And our second Best Picture Oscar.

Better than it’s made out to be
Seeing The Broadway Melody for the first time for historical interest and to see whether it really was down there as one of the worst Best Picture winners, it wasn’t as bad as I’d heard it cited to be. It is a long way from perfect, the editing is sloppy which hinders the choreography(which sometimes was dull, small-scale and stagy), much of the supporting cast overact(Jed Prouty is especially annoying) and Anita Page’s- as charmingly photogenic as she is- acting doesn’t seem very natural at all. However, while not Best Picture worthy it is not one of the worst films ever made, not by a long shot. The costumes are just lovely and the sets are good as well. The dialogue is snappy(the orchestra is trying to drown me out line is very funny), the story while slow at times does have a simple nostalgic fun and charm to it and Page is very photogenic as said already. Charles King has a beautiful voice, he isn’t the best of actors either but he’s charming and not annoying. The choreography wasn’t hugely impressive, but it does have some good moments, choreographically the best number by a landslide is Wedding of a Painted Doll. The Broadway Melody is competently directed, but Best Director worthy, not so sure. The best aspects of The Broadway Melody are the songs and the performance of Bessie Love, the only assets that come across as truly outstanding. The songs are marvellous, The Broadway Melody and You Were Meant for Me are classics. And Love is just terrific as Queenie, she does so much with the character and was more than deserving of her Oscar nomination. In conclusion, not a great film but better than it’s made out to be. 6.5/10 Bethany Cox

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min) (TCM print)
Budget 379000
Revenue 4358000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Drama, Musical, Romance
Director Harry Beaumont
Writer Edmund Goulding, Norman Houston, James Gleason
Actors Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System), Silent
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1 (sound on disc version), 1.20 : 1 (sound on film version)
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 1,811.45 m (6 reels) (silent version) (USA), 2,856.6 m (10 reels) (sound version) (USA)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm