The Broadway Melody (1929)
With Anita Page, Charles King, Bessie Love, Edward Dillon, Carla Laemmle, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson
Directed by Harry Beaumont
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.
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