The Broadway Melody

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Sedale S. @sedale143 Mar 19 I can see why this put MGM on the map. Can we please have a 100 year anniversary remake for this? As a quasi theater kid, this movie was a great peak into how broadway was handled back. Love me some musical history! I cared for all the characters and the music was catchy and phenomenal. I just wish there was more music. Crazy how not many best picture winners have been musicals when this was the first to ever win. See more Christian K @ckacar 01/28/2025 Pretty unentertaining throughout. The music and performances were rough and it was a slog for me to get through. See more ChrisCSH H @RT12343453 09/08/2024 Broadway Melody is completely outdated for this day and age but for the time it was incredibly realistic and as the first talking Oscar winner for best picture and also first talking musical for the time, it was incredibly ambitious and revolutionary for the time along with not only musical numbers, but also a love triangle, which is quite entertaining. See more michael d @RT16138633 12/11/2021 The first sound film to win an Academy Award it was also the first musical to use a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used. While it was the top grossing picture of 1929 and it is the first complete example of the Hollywodo musical, it is cliche ridden and overly melodramatic. It's an interesting example of an early Hollywood musical but otherwise is void of appeal. It has not stood the test of time in ways that many of its more artistic contemporaries have. Some deficiencies can be attributed to the way the genre has been re-shaped and improved. See more david f @dfulmer 05/22/2021 This is kind of a slight film but it's worth watching for its significance in the history of Hollywood. One of the first talkies ever made, and the first musical film of many, it features a couple of songs that later reached cinematic perfection in "Singin in the Rain" and it's absolutely fascinating to see these early takes on "Broadway Melody", "Wedding of The Painted Doll", and "You Were Meant For Me" in black and white. See more william d @acsdoug 05/07/2021 MGM still had a lot to learn about making musicals - and sound movies generally for that matter. Still, if you're interested in early cinema and it's development you might find this worthwhile. See more Read all reviews

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