The Broadway Melody
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 early 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 survives only in black and white. The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical.
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author | Edmund Goulding James Gleason |
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award | Academy Award for Best Picture |
contentLocation | New York City |
director | Harry Beaumont |
editor | Sam Zimbalist |
musicBy | Nacio Herb Brown |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture |
producer | Irving Thalberg Lawrence Weingarten |
publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
theme | lgbt-related musical romantic musical |