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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929002474
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 08, 2008
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 52181
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1929
Editorial Review:
Description:
This is the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar and often is considered the granddaddy of all MGM musicals. Anita Page and Bessie Love star as two sisters in love with the same man. Year: 1929 Director: Harry Beaumont Starring: Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love,
DVD Features:
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Theatrical Trailer
Amazon.com:
'100% All Talking! 100% All Singing! 100% All Dancing!' If the math is slightly off, the now-legendary ad campaign for The Broadway Melody can be excused. After all, sound had just come in, and a full-scale musical film was still a novelty. This tuneful 1929 production became a smash hit and won the Best Picture Academy Award® in the second Oscar® ceremony. The story is a creaky tale of two sisters bringing their act to Broadway, but the fun is in the Roaring Twenties lingo and the showbiz melodrama. This is an era when a gal could become the toast of Broadway by standing, motionless, on a stage pedestal ('Those guys aren't gonna pay 10 bucks to look at your face--this is Broadway!'). The tunes include the standard 'You Were Meant for Me'; most of the dramatic weight is handled by the peppy silent star Bessie Love, who was Oscar-nominated. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - a little pre-hayes code fun!
O.K. first a general comment:
Can someone please explain to me why so many people refer to this film as "dated" to put it down...
It was made in 1929... Thank you to the reviewer who pointed this out!
If you want something more up to date, go rent "The Terminator" (!)
Back in 1929 things were rather... 1929s'ish... (errrrrrr... duh...)
That said, actually one reason the film is so relevant today is because of just how ahead of its time it was...
Basically it was ... Read More
Rating: - The first actual movie musical
Even though it was advertised as "All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!", this movie, named the Best Picture of 1929, contains certain elements that point out that sound was still unfamiliar territory to most filmmakers. For example, this movie is still using title cards to announce the chapters. Also, the actors are still using silent film acting techniques as though nobody can hear them. For example, in one scene, characters indicate their drunkenness by hiccuping and wildly staggering about. This ... Read More
Rating:  - The Broadway Melody
I thouroughly loved this one! I wouls only add to the other reviewers words by saying I've always loved the song "Broadway Melody", both the music and gleefully,carefree happy time flavor of those 1929 lyrics. Thought I'd never be able to listen enough times to this song to satisfy me,BUT,this movie justabout does the trick. I shall be keeping this gem among my treasures and to think I was able to purchase a $680,000.00 movie which grossed 4 million bucks, for only [$$$] here at Amazon. This movie has ... Read More
Rating: - A Trip Back to a Happier Day
This wonderful movie was made in both silent and talkie versions in 1928, and released the following year.Bessie Love and the beautiful Anita Page star as two sisters trying to make it big on the NY stage, and both in love with the same man. Charles King,(1889-1944), a fairly well-known hoofer and song man of the era, plays Eddie. He does well in this movie, but it has been recorded elsewhere that he had great problems remembering his lines. Miss Page, 18 at the time, gives a stellar performance as a ... Read More
Rating: - The Sounds of Broadway!
Claimed by some as "The worst film to ever win best picture" I couldn't disagree more. "The Broadway Melody" carried a lot of importance with it in the world of cinema. It was the first complete "talkie". Flooded with music and dance.
"The Broadway Melody" tells the story of the Mahoney sisters, Queenis (Anita Page) and Hank (Bessie Love) who go to New York with the idea in their head they'll make it on Broadway with the help of Hank's boyfriend, Eddie Kearns (Charles King). But, as the film goes ... Read More
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