Summary
Musical starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell. Two struggling dancers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, are watched by a producer who mistakenly gives Shaw, the less talented of the two, a starring role in a Broadway show.
Broadway Melody of 1940
- Musical
- Music
- 1940
- Norman Taurog
- 97 mins
- U
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IMDBReview
The fourth and last of MGM's great Broadway Melody series is perfection in rhythm. Fred Astaire and George Murphy play sparring dance partners, though together they perform terrifically; the seemingly effortless sophistication of Please Don't Monkey with Broadway is utterly beguiling. A masked Douglas McPhail introduces the Cole Porter classic I Concentrate on You, but the movie's undoubted highlight is Astaire sublimely performing a tap with toothy Eleanor Powell to Cole's Begin the Beguine on a glossy, highly polished black-and-white set. As Frank Sinatra said in That's Entertainment!: "You can wait around and hope, but you'll never see its like again."
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Credits
Cast
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Johnny Brett | Fred Astaire |
| Clara Bennett | Eleanor Powell |
| King Shaw | George Murphy |
| Bob Casey | Frank Morgan |
| Bert C Matthews | Ian Hunter (1) |
| Amy Blake | Florence Rice |
| Emmy Lou Lee | Lynne Carver |
| Pearl | Ann Morriss |
| Juggler | Trixie Firschke |
| Masked singer | Douglas McPhail |
Crew
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Norman Taurog |
Details
- Theatrical distributor
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Languages
- English
- Available on
- DVD
- Formats
- Black and white
