The Broadway Melody

United States

1929

110 Min

Color, Black and White

English

Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Harry Rapf, Irving Thalberg, Lawrence Weingarten

SCR Edmund Goulding, Norman Houston, James Gleason

CAST Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson

Harry Beaumont (February 10, 1888 – December 22, 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers and MGM.

Beaumont’s greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he directed films including John Barrymore’s Beau Brummel (1924), the silent youth movie Our Dancing Daughters (1928), featuring Joan Crawford. Beaumont also directed MGM’s first talkie musical, The Broadway Melody in 1929. The film won the Best Picture Academy Award that year, and Beaumont was nominated for Best Director.

Beaumont was married to actress Hazel Daly. The couple had twin daughters Anne and Geraldine, born in 1922.

On December 22, 1966, Beaumont died at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. —Wikipedia

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MarcH

17Oct11

Breezy and fascinating for about 30 minutes, then it deflates. Great score, though. There are better early sound musicals out there (Sally, Sunnyside Up, Showgirl in Hollywood, King of Jazz).

Dimitris Psachos

24Apr11

Why make a fuss about its inexcusable and highly predictable screenplay? Beaumont may not have an eyeful for...anything (!) and yet, that doesn't stop Bessie Love from being simultaneously sassy and rigorous up until her breaking point where I can forgive it all, including the then unimaginable musical numbers for a more or less...early dramedy?

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