Broadway Rhythm

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Broadway Rhythm
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Roy Del Ruth
Written by	Dorothy Kingsley Harry Clork
Story by	Jack McGowan
Based on	Very Warm for May 1939 musical by Jerome Kern Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd.
Produced by	Jack Cummings
Starring	George Murphy Ginny Simms
Cinematography	Leonard Smith, A.S.C.
Edited by	Albert Akst
Music by	Johnny Green
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	April 13, 1944 (1944-04-13)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Broadway Rhythm is a 1944 American Technicolor musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars George Murphy and Ginny Simms, with Charles Winniger, Gloria DeHaven, Nancy Walker, Ben Blue, Lena Horne, Eddie Anderson, Hazel Scott, Kenny Bowers, The Ross Sisters and Dean Murphy. The film prominently features Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra. It was produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

It was originally announced as Broadway Melody of 1944 to follow MGM's Broadway Melody films of 1929, 1936, 1938, and 1940. It was originally slated to star Eleanor Powell and Gene Kelly, but Louis B. Mayer and MGM loaned Kelly out to Columbia to play opposite Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl (1944). The film instead starred Murphy, who had appeared in Broadway Melody of 1938 and Broadway Melody of 1940. Mayer then replaced Powell with Simms.

Plot

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.

Cast

Soundtrack

The film is very loosely based on the Broadway musical Very Warm for May (1939). However, all the songs from the musical except for "All the Things You Are" were left out of the film. Some of the songs from the movie are by the writers of the original musical, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II:

• All the Things You Are
• That Lucky Fellow
• In Other Words, Seventeen
• All in Fun

See also

• List of American films of 1944

References

External links

• Broadway Rhythm at IMDb
• Broadway Rhythm at the TCM Movie Database (archived)
• Broadway Rhythm at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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