page_title: The Broadway Melody
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: The Broadway Melody / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Low-resolution image of poster for the American musical film The Broadway Melody (1929)
context_page_description: The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today, the Technicolor sequence is lost; only a black and white copy survives in available versions. The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical.
  The Broadway Melody was written by Norman Houston and James Gleason from a story by Edmund Goulding, and directed by Harry Beaumont. Original music was written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, including the popular hit "You Were Meant for Me". The George M. Cohan classic "Give My Regards to Broadway" is used under the opening establishing shots of New York City, its film debut. Bessie Love was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
context_section_description: Anita Page as Queenie Mahoney
  Bessie Love as Harriet "Hank" Mahoney
  Charles King as Eddie Kearns
  Jed Prouty as Uncle Jed
  Kenneth Thomson as Jacques Warriner
  Edward Dillon as Stage Manager
  Mary Doran as Flo, the blonde
  Eddie Kane as Zanfield
  J. Emmett Beck as Babe Hatrick
  Marshall Ruth as Stew
  Drew Demarest as Turpe
  James Gleason as Music Publisher (uncredited)
caption: Poster
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