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Broadway to Hollywood (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Broadway to Hollywood' is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by Willard Mack, produced by Harry Rapf, cinematography by Norbert Brodine and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film features many of MGM's stars of the time, including Frank Morgan, Alice Brady, May Robson, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper. Brothers Moe Howard and Curly Howard of The Three Stooges appearwithout Ted Healy and without Larry Finealmost unrecognizably, as Otto and Fritz, two clowns in makeup. It was the first film to feature Nelson Eddy.
Plot
Ted and Lulu Hackett are vaudeville's The Hacketts, a fairly successful song-and-dance team. They bring their son Ted Jr. up in the business and he soon eclipses them. When the son is offered a starring role on Broadway, he arranges for his parents to join him in the show, but Ted Sr. is embarrassed to learn that he and Lulu are there purely in order to keep their son happy. They return to vaudeville, only to find that their duet act has gone stale with time. Meanwhile, Ted Jr. has married and had a son, but he has also fallen victim to drink. Tragedy strikes the Hackett family, and only the march of time will tell whether Ted III will repeat the failings of his father and grandfather.
Cast
* Alice Brady as Lulu Hackett
* Frank Morgan as Ted Hackett
* Jackie Cooper as Ted Hackett Jr. as a Child
* Russell Hardie as Ted Hackett Jr.
* Madge Evans as Anne Ainsley
* Mickey Rooney as Ted Hackett III as a Child
* Eddie Quillan as Ted Hackett III
* Jimmy Durante as Jimmy
* May Robson as Veteran Actress
* Albertina Rasch Dancers as Themselves
* Fay Templeton as Herself
File:Alice Brady in Broadway to Hollywood trailer.jpg|Alice Brady
File:Frank Morgan in Broadway to Hollywood trailer.jpg|Frank Morgan
File:Jackie Cooper in Broadway to Hollywood trailer.jpg|Jackie Cooper
File:Russell Hardie in Broadway to Hollywood trailer.jpg|Russell Hardie
File:Madge Evans in Broadway to Hollywood trailer.jpg|Madge Evans
File:Eddie Quillan in Broadway to Hollywood trailer.jpg|Eddie Quillan
File:Jimmy Durante in Broadway to Hollywood trailer.jpg|Jimmy Durante
File:May Robson in Broadway to Hollywood trailer.jpg|May Robson
File:Fay Templeton in Broadway to Hollywood trailer.jpg| Fay Templeton
Preservation
The film features several sequences taken from the unfinished MGM musical 'The March of Time' (1930), including some filmed in the early two-color Technicolor process. Fay Templeton, DeWolf Hopper Sr., and Albertina Rasch and her dancers are featured in footage taken from 'The March of Time'. However, current prints of 'Broadway to Hollywood' as shown on Turner Classic Movies have no color sequences. The film was released on September 15, 1933, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
See also
* Three Stooges Filmography
References
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