Broadway to Hollywood (film)

Broadway to Hollywood
Broadway to Hollywood
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Willard Mack
Screenplay by	Willard Mack; Edgar Allan Woolf
Produced by	Harry Rapf
Starring	Alice Brady; Frank Morgan; Jackie Cooper; Russell Hardie; Madge Evans; Mickey Rooney
Cinematography	Norbert Brodine; William H. Daniels
Edited by	William S. Gray; Ben Lewis
Music by	William Axt
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	September 15, 1933;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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 appear—without Ted Healy and without Larry Fine—almost unrecognizably, as Otto and Fritz, two clowns in makeup.[1][2] It was the first film to feature Nelson Eddy.[3]

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

Alice Brady
Frank Morgan
Jackie Cooper
Russell Hardie
Madge Evans
Eddie Quillan
Jimmy Durante
May Robson
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.

References

"Broadway to Hollywood (1933) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
M.H. (September 2, 1933). "Movie Review - Broadway to Hollywood - Valiant Troupers". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
"Broadway to Hollywood". AFI Catalog. Retrieved April 24, 2018.

External links

Media related to Broadway to Hollywood (film) at Wikimedia Commons

Broadway to Hollywood at IMDb
Broadway to Hollywood at the TCM Movie Database
Broadway to Hollywood at AllMovie
Broadway to Hollywood at the American Film Institute Catalog

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[1] "Broadway to Hollywood (1933) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved August 8, 2015.

[2] M.H. (September 2, 1933). "Movie Review - Broadway to Hollywood - Valiant Troupers". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2015.

[3] "Broadway to Hollywood". AFI Catalog. Retrieved April 24, 2018.