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Review - The Broadway Melody (1929)
Delorted - wrote on 11/05/2007
Hank and Queenie Mahoney (Bessie Love and Anita Page) were just two sisters looking for a good job on Broadway, which they got when their friend Eddie Kerns (Charles King) wrote a song for a revue. Sparks, both good and bad, fly between the sisters and Eddie in the Best Picture winner, “The Broadway Melody.”
What’s interesting about calling this film a musical is that the music is merely a gimmick and plays only a small part in the film. The real attraction is the characters, as well as the love triangle between the three leads. Their brawls really capture the audience and can get very emotion, in a good way. The actors and actress give it their all, even if they seem to give a bit too much of a stage delivery to most lines, which you can’t really blame them for as modern …
