BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938

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CREDITS

1937, 110 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Jack Cummings; Director, Roy Del Ruth; Screenplay, Jack McGowan; Story, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers; Cinematography, William Daniels; Music Director, George Stoll; Editor, Blanche Sewell; Dance Direction, Dave Gould.

CAST

Steve Raleigh, Robert Taylor; Sally Lee, Eleanor Powell; Sonny Lanford, George Murphy; Caroline Whipple, Binnie Barnes; Peter Trot, Buddy Ebsen; Alice Clayton, Sophie Tucker; Betty Clayton, Judy Garland; Nicki Papaloopas, Charles Igor Gorin; Herman Whipple, Raymond Walburn; Hamilton Brown, Robert Benchley.

SONGS

I'm Feeling Like a Million; Yours and Mine; Everybody Sing; Follow In My Footsteps; Your Broadway and My Broadway; Broadway Rhythm; Sun Showers by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown; You Made Me Love You (Dear Mr. Gable) by James V. Monaco and Joseph McCarthy, special lyrics by Roger Edens; Some of These Days by Shelton Brooks.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

". . .Eleanor Powell plays a girl who dreams of 'making it big' on Broadway. On her way to the top, she has two memorable encounters: a racehorse named Stargazer, whose winning ways could help make her dream come true; and a dashing Broadway producer-composer (Robert Taylor) who makes it all happen."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc

NOTES

". . .the musical numbers - staged by Dave Gould - were in the opulent MGM tradition. . .and, although not as inventive as they had been in Broadway Melody of 1936 , were breezy enough to help one overlook the deficiencies in the script."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Explosion in the cash drawers. . .will do smash business everywhere."
- Variety

"The script is something dim about backstage troubles before the opening of a giant musical, and this follow-up. . .seems routine. . .But something startling and joyful happens when the 15-year-old Judy Garland, in bobby socks, lets out her huge voice on the memorable love letter "Dear Mr. Gable". . ."
-Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies

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