BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD

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CREDITS

1933, 90 minutes, B&W with Technicolor Sequences.
Producer, Harry Rapf; Director, Willard Mack; Screenplay, Willard Mack; Story, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf; Cinematography, Norbert Bordine and William H. Daniels; Dance Direction, Sammy Lee.

CAST

Ted Hackett, Frank Morgan; Lulu Hackett, Alice Brady; Ted Hackett Jr. (as a child), Jackie Cooper; Anne Ainslee, Madge Evans; Ted Hackett Jr., Russell Hardie; Ted the Third (as a child), Mickey Rooney; Ted the Third, Eddie Quillan; David, Tad Alexander; Joe Mannion, Edward Brophy; Wanda, Ruth Channing; Grace, Jean Howard; Jimmy Durante, Fay Templeton, Nelson Eddy, Una Merkel and the Albertina Rasch Dancers.

SONGS

In the Garden of My Heart by Ernest R. Ball and Caro Roma; We Are the Hacketts by Al Goodhart; When Old New York Was Young by Howard Johnson and Gus Edwards; Ma Blushin' Rosie by Edgar Smith and John Stromberg; Come Down Ma Evenin' Star by Robert B. Smith and John Stromberg; The Honeysuckle and the Bee by Albert H. Fitz and William H. Penn; Snow Ballet by Dmitri Tiomkin; Hansom Cab Drivers by Jean Schwartz; The March of Time by Louis Alter and Howard Johnson; Bedelia by Schwartz and William Jerome; There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight by Theodore Metz and Joe Hayden; Poor Little G String by Fred Ahlert and Roy Turk; Melody in F by Anton Rubinstein.

NOTES

"A backstage musical spanning almost fifty years and three generations, telling of the life and hard times of a vaudeville family named Hackett, Broadway To Hollywood married an almost documentary-like look at a now-forgotten era of entertainment with a hearts-and-flowers story which culminated in the youngest member of the Hackett household, Ted the Third (Eddie Quillan) finding fame and fortune in the Tinsel City."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"A saga of the theatre that will please."
- Variety

Nelson Eddy and Fay Templeton both made their film debuts in this movie.

Several of the Technicolor sequences were originally shot in 1930 for the abandoned MGM revue called The March of Time.

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