The Broadway Melody
1929 film · Released 1929
The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the early musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. The Broadway Melody was written by Norman Houston and James Gleason from a story by Edmund Goulding and directed by Harry Beaumont. Original music was written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, including the popular hit "You Were Meant for Me".
Cast ages at release (1929)
- Anita Page, as Queenie Mahoney: 18–19
- Charles King, as Eddie Kearns: 42–43
- Bessie Love, as Harriet "Hank" Mahoney: 30–31
- Edward Dillon, as stage manager: 50
- Jed Prouty, as Uncle Jed: 49–50
- Kenneth Thomson, as Jacques Warriner: 29–30