Broadway Melody of 1938

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Broadway Melody of 1938

1937,

1h 50m,

Musical/

Comedy

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Wealthy Caroline Whipple backs a musical revue by handsome young Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor). By coincidence, when Mrs. Whipple decides to sell Stargazer, her underachieving racehorse, Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell), who raised the horse, turns out to be a talented dancer in search of work. Frustrated by Steve's attraction to Sally and plans to star her in the show, Mrs. Whipple pulls her support, leaving Steve, Sally and dancer Sonny Ledford dependent on Stargazer's performance.

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Walter Goodman

New York Times

Jan 10, 2018

Escapist, sure, but 1938 was a year worth escaping from.

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Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

Dec 29, 2017

Inventive musical numbers redeem film.

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Steve Crum

Video-Reviewmaster.com

Mar 14, 2009

5/5

Stunning Elanor Powell dances, great music highlight all time tops MGM musical.

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Apr 6, 2008

It's ridiculous and tremendous fun, a veritable evening of entertainment with song and dance and comedy acts and a story that exists only to transition from one act to another.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Nov 5, 2004

3/5

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Mar 1, 2004

4/5

Great musical numbers, but a lame plot and George Murphy work against it.

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Jan 27, 2019

The best movie song ever sung: Dear Mr. Gable (You Made Me Love You)!

Finn R

May 22, 2018

The third "Broadway Melody" film has a strange blend of plot elements. George Murphy and Buddy Ebsen are a pair of itinerant vaudevillians who get a job taking care of a champion thoroughbred for Rayond Walburn. When the horse is injured during it's first race, it's former owner Eleanor Powell shows up trying to make sure it's well looked after. She follows the horse back to New York and decides that she could maybe get a job in a Broadway show. Luckily she meets Robert Taylor on the train, who has a new show being produced by Walburn, and Taylor decides she should star in his show. Sophie Tucker shows up as a retired Broadway performer who runs a boarding house for entertainers and is trying to get her daughter Judy Garland into show biz. Billy Gilbert is on hand as an Italian barber who helps Powell buy her horse back so she can enter it n the big race. After lots of plot machinations, Taylor puts on his big show with essentially everyone in the film's cast in it. It's great to see Garland 2 years before "The Wizard of Oz", as well as Buddy Ebsen in his comedic dancer phase. Among other odd threads in the flick, a man gives a long comedic speech about all the various types of sneezes.

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Roy Del Ruth

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Robert Taylor

Steve Raleigh

Eleanor Powell

Sally Lee

Judy Garland

Betty Clayton

George Murphy

Sonny Ledford

Binnie Barnes

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Synopsis

Wealthy Caroline Whipple backs a musical revue by handsome young Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor). By coincidence, when Mrs. Whipple decides to sell Stargazer, her underachieving racehorse, Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell), who raised the horse, turns out to be a talented dancer in search of work. Frustrated by Steve's attraction to Sally and plans to star her in the show, Mrs. Whipple pulls her support, leaving Steve, Sally and dancer Sonny Ledford dependent on Stargazer's performance.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Producer: Jack Cummings
Screenwriter: Jack McGowan
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 20, 1937, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2008
Runtime: 1h 50m

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