Broadway Melody

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American film film musical film sound film

Broadway Melody is a landmark early sound musical film from 1929 that became one of Hollywood’s first major talking-picture hits and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
The Broadway Melody	6
Broadway Melody canonical	5
Broadway Melody (song)	1
The Broadway Melody (1929 film songs)	1
The Broadway Melody (1929)	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film ⓘ film ⓘ musical film ⓘ sound film ⓘ
academyAwardsCeremony	2nd Academy Awards ⓘ
awardReceived	Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
awardYear	1930 ⓘ
basedOn	original screenplay ⓘ
cinematographyBy	John Arnold ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
director	Harry Beaumont ⓘ
distributor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ
editor	Sam Zimbalist ⓘ
followedBy	Broadway Melody of 1936 ⓘ
format	black-and-white ⓘ
genre	musical ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ
hasSound	synchronized sound ⓘ
leadActressNominee	Bessie Love ⓘ
lyricsBy	Arthur Freed ⓘ
musicBy	Nacio Herb Brown ⓘ
nominatedFor	Academy Award for Best Actress ⓘ Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story ⓘ surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story
notableFor	being one of the first major talking-picture hits ⓘ being the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
notableSong	Broadway Melody self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Broadway Melody Wedding of the Painted Doll ⓘ You Were Meant for Me ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
partOf	Broadway Melody film series ⓘ
producer	Irving Thalberg ⓘ Lawrence Weingarten ⓘ
productionCompany	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ
releaseDate	1929-02-01 ⓘ
releaseYear	1929 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	100 ⓘ
screenwriter	Edmund Goulding ⓘ James Gleason ⓘ Norman Houston ⓘ
setIn	New York City ⓘ
starring	Anita Page ⓘ Bessie Love ⓘ Charles King ⓘ Eddie Kane ⓘ Jed Prouty ⓘ Kenneth Thomson ⓘ
storyBy	Edmund Goulding ⓘ
title	Broadway Melody self-link ⓘ Broadway Melody self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Broadway Melody

Referenced by (14)

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Arthur Freed → wroteLyricsFor → Broadway Melody ⓘ

Nacio Herb Brown → notableWork → Broadway Melody ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Broadway Melody (1929 film songs)

Nacio Herb Brown → wroteMusicFor → Broadway Melody ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Broadway Melody (1929)

Broadway Melody film series → hasPart → Broadway Melody ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Broadway Melody

Broadway Melody → title → Broadway Melody self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Broadway Melody

Broadway Melody → title → Broadway Melody self-link ⓘ

Broadway Melody → notableSong → Broadway Melody self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Broadway Melody

Arthur Grossman → wroteLyricsFor → Broadway Melody ⓘ

this entity surface form: Broadway Melody (song)

The Dancing Cavalier → associatedSong → Broadway Melody ⓘ

Nacio → notableWork → Broadway Melody ⓘ

subject surface form: Nacio Herb Brown

Wedding of the Painted Doll → partOf → Broadway Melody ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Broadway Melody

Wedding of the Painted Doll → featuredIn → Broadway Melody ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Broadway Melody

Bessie Love → notableWork → Broadway Melody ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Broadway Melody