Broadway Rhythm
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Broadway Rhythm is an MGM Technicolor musical film released in 1944. It was produced by Jack Cummings and directed by Roy Del Ruth.
The film starred George Murphy and Ginny Simms with a cast that included Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven, Lena Horne, Nancy Walker, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, and Ben Blue, as well as Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra.
Murphy plays a successful Broadway musical comedy producer named Johnnie Demming. He needs a star for his new show. He’s smitten with the glamorous film star, Helen Hoyt (Simms)), and offers the part to her, but she turns him down because she wants to be sure she’s in a hit. Johnnie’s father (Winninger), retired from vaudeville, wants to do his own show. He gets his daughter, Patsy (DeHaven) and also Helen. Johnnie feels betrayed by his father.
Some of the songs from the movie are by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II:
- All the Things You Are
- That Lucky Fellow
- In Other Words
- Seventeen
- All in Fun
