Broadway Serenade

1939 film by Robert Zigler Leonard
  • April 7, 1939 (1939-04-07)
Running time
114 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$1,284,000[1]Box office$617,000 (Domestic earnings)[1]
$617,000 (Foreign earnings)[1]

Broadway Serenade (also known as Serenade) is a 1939 musical drama film distributed by MGM, produced and directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer, based on a story by Lew Lipton, John Taintor Foote and Hanns Kräly. The music score is by Herbert Stothart and Edward Ward.

Plot

Cast

  • Jeanette MacDonald as Mary Hale
  • Lew Ayres as James Geoffrey 'Jimmy' Seymour
  • Ian Hunter as Larry Bryant
  • Frank Morgan as Cornelius Collier, Jr.
  • Wally Vernon as Joey, the Jinx
  • Rita Johnson as Judith 'Judy' Tyrrell
  • Virginia Grey as Pearl
  • William Gargan as Bill Foster
  • Katharine Alexander as Harriet Ingalls
  • Al Shean as Herman
  • Esther Dale as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
  • Franklin Pangborn as Gene, Collier's Composer
  • E. Alyn Warren as Everett
  • Paul Hurst as Reynolds, a Drunk
  • Frank Orth as Mr. Fellows
  • Esther Howard as Mrs. Fellows
  • Leon Belasco as Squeaker, the Violinist
  • Kitty McHugh as Kitty, Mary's Maid
  • Kenny Stevens as Singer
  • Ray Walker as Denny Madison
  • Claude King as Mr. Gato

References

  1. ^ a b c Turk, Edward Baron. Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald. (University of California Press, 1998)

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