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CREDITS
1940, 73 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Jack Cummings; Director, S. Sylvan Simon; Screenplay, Jospeh Fields and Jerome Chodorov; Cinematography, George J. Folsey.
CAST
Eddie Kearns, George Murphy; Molly Mahoney, Joan Blondell; Pat Mahoney, Lana Turner; Chat Chatsworth, Kent Taylor; Jed Marlowe, Wallace Ford; Judge, Lloyd Corrigan; Buddy Bartell, Richard Lane; Ito, Otto Hahn.
SONGS
Rancho Santa Fe; True Love by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson; My Wonderful One Let's Dance by Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown and Roger Edens; Maybe It's the Moon by Bob Wright, Chet Forrest and Walter Donaldson; Broadway's Still Broadway by Ted Fetter and Jimmy McHugh.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
Molly (Joan Blondell) and Pat (Lana Turner) Mahoney are sisters who teach dance in a small midwestern town. Molly's boyfriend, Eddie Kearns (George Murphy), has travelled to New York to make his name on Broadway. After successfully appearing on a radio show, he is offered a part in a new Broadway show, and somehow finagles an audition for Molly, too. Molly arrives with Pat in tow, but complications arise when first Pat is offered a role in the show and not Molly, and next, Eddie finds himself falling in love with Pat.
NOTES
"A production number in which Turner and Murphy demonstrated their terpsichorean skills was the musical highlight in this otherwise modest and moderately entertaining remake."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"Acceptable lower-case vaudeville musical which rewrites the already wispy plot of Broadway Melody."
- Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Film Guide
This film was a remake of MGM's The Broadway Melody (1929).
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