Broadway Serenade (1939)
It's got "Maytime's" glories..."Ziegfeld's" thrills. No wonder 22,000,000 people voted Jeanette MacDonald Queen of Song, Romance and Beauty!
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
- Date of release
- 1939-04-07
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama, Music
- Director
- Robert Z. Leonard
Casting
- Jeanette MacDonald — Mary Hale
- Lew Ayres — James Geoffrey 'Jimmy' Seymour
- Ian Hunter — Larry Bryant
- Frank Morgan — Cornelius Collier, Jr.
- Wally Vernon — Joey, the Jinx
- Rita Johnson — Judith 'Judy' Tyrrell
- Virginia Grey — Pearl
- William Gargan — Bill Foster
- Katharine Alexander — Harriet Ingalls
- Al Shean — Herman
- Esther Dale — Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
- Franklin Pangborn — Gene, Collier's Composer
Interesting facts
Broadway Serenade is a 1939 musical drama film distributed by MGM, produced and directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer, based on a story by Lew Lipton, John Taintor Foote and Hanns Kräly. The music score is by Herbert Stothart and Edward Ward.
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