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This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound
era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a multitude of song and dance from the songwriting
team of Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. Freed later became unit producer
of the legendary Freed Unit at MGM, which is the reason many of the tunes from Broadway Melody,"You Were Meant For Me"", "Broadway
Melody", ""The Wedding of the Painted Doll"which later appeared in Freed's influential MGM musical Singin' In the
Rain.
The quaint story concerns midwestern sister act The Mahoney
Sisters; Queenie Anita Page; and Hank, Bessie Love, who come to New York to try to make it big on
Broadway. Hank's song-and-dance man friend Eddie, Charles King, has promised the gals a part in the new Broadway revue in
which he is soon to appear. When Hank and Queenie come to see him, Hank is pleasantly surprised at the way Queenie has filled
out. Soon enough, Eddie is making advances to Queenie. Queenie is attracted to Eddie too, but she doesn't want to steal her
sister's boyfriend. So she Queenie takes up with a lecherous playboy, leaving it to Hank to put all these signals and confused
love relationships in perspective.
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