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The Broadway Melody

1929 · 101 min

Drama, Music, Romance

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

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Appeals to viewers who enjoy early backstage spectacle, theatrical performance, and emotionally direct romantic melodrama.

Tone
romantic, nostalgic, bittersweet
Payoff
swoon, catharsis
Pacing
steady
Intensity
moderate
Structure
linear
Themes
ambition, sisterhood, romantic rivalry, social class, show business
Setting
late 1920s, Broadway theaters and backstage dressing rooms

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