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 January 30, 1930 |
| 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 | musical romantic musical |