Broadway Babies

Broadway Babies

Official poster
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Produced by Robert North
Written by Story:
Jay Gelzer
("Broadway Musketeers")
Screenplay:
Monte M. Katterjohn
Dialogue:
Monte M. Katterjohn
Humphrey Pearson
Titles:
Paul Perez (uncredited)
Starring Alice White
Marion Byron
Sally Eilers
Charles Delaney
Tom Dugan
Bodil Rosing
Maurice Black
Fred Kohler
Louis Natheaux
Jocelyn Lee
Music by Leo F. Forbstein
Cinematography Sol Polito
Edited by Frank Ware
Production
company
First National Pictures Warner Bros.
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • June 30, 1929 (sound version)
  • July 28, 1929 (silent version)
Running time
 89 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Broadway Babies, aka Broadway Daddies (UK) and Ragazze d'America (Italy), is a 1929 all-talking pre-code black and white American musical film produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. The film was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and stars Alice White and Charles Delaney. This was Alice White's first sound film with dialogue.

Synopsis

Chorus girl (Alice White) is in love with stage manager (Charles Delaney) of show and he also loves her. They plan to marry until a bootlegger (Fred Kohler) steps in. White is led to believe that Delaney is in love with another girl, so she agrees to play around with Kohler when he becomes interested in her. When Kohler proposes marriage, White accepts. As they are about to be married, rival gangsters shoots Kohler and he ends up dying. White is reconciled with Delaney and they become engaged.

Film Preservation

Broadway Babies today survives complete and has been broadcast on television and cable.

Taglines

The film's various taglines include:

Cast

Songs

Written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke
Sung by an unidentified man over the opening credits
Reprised by Alice White and chorus at the nightclub
Played as background music throughout the film

Written by George M. Cohan Played as background in the first scene of New York

Written by Ruggerio Leoncavallo
Sung a cappella by a tenor at the rooming house

Written by Richard Wagner (1850)
Sung a cappella by Charles Delaney and Tom Dugan

Written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke
Sung and danced to by Alice White and chorus at rehearsal
Reprised by Alice White and chorus at the show

Written by George W. Meyer and Al Bryan
Sung by Alice White in the last show
Danced to by Alice White and chorus in the show

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