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Broadway Melody of 1940

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Call Number: DVD Musical Broadway
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Originally released as a motion picuture in 1940.
Special features: All-new digital transfer; Ann Miller hosts Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine; Our Gang short The Big Premiere; theatrical trailer; behind-the-scenes notes.
Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian Hunter, Florence Rice, Lynne Carver.
A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake in identity and all is resolved.
DVD. Full screen.

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SERIES
Classic musicals collection.


LANGUAGE OPTIONS
English or French soundtrack; subtitles in English, French & Spanish.

PUBLISHED
[Burbank, CA] : Warner Home Video, [2003], c1940.
Year Published: 1940
Description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Rated: Not Rated
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0790774798 :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Cummings, Jack, 1905-
Gordon, Leon, 1884-1960.
Oppenheimer, George.
Taurog, Norman, 1899-1981.,
Porter, Cole, 1891-1964.,
Astaire, Fred.,
Powell, Eleanor, 1912-1982,
Murphy, George, 1902-1992.
Morgan, Frank, 1890-1949.
Hunter, Ian, 1900-1975.
Rice, Florence, 1911-1974.
Carver, Lynne, 1909-1955.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Warner Home Video (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Dance -- Drama.
Musical films.