Broadway Melody of 1940

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American film film musical film

Broadway Melody of 1940 is a classic Hollywood musical film best known for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and the celebrated pairing of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell.

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film → film → musical film →
artDirectionBy	Cedric Gibbons →
basedOn	story by Dore Schary → story by Jack McGowan →
blackAndWhite	true →
cinematographyBy	Oliver T. Marsh NERFINISHED →
costumeDesignBy	Adrian →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Norman Taurog →
distributedIn	United States →
distributor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer →
editedBy	Blanche Sewell →
era	Golden Age of Hollywood →
featuresCharacter	Clare Bennett → Johnny Brett → King Shaw →
featuresDanceNumber	Begin the Beguine tap duet →
featuresOnscreenPairing	Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell →
follows	Broadway Melody of 1938 →
genre	musical → romantic comedy →
hasFilmFormat	35 mm →
language	English →
musicBy	Cole Porter →
notableFor	pairing of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell → sophisticated song-and-dance numbers →
notableSong	Begin the Beguine →
originalLanguage	English →
partOfSeries	Broadway Melody film series →
producer	Jack Cummings →
productionCompany	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer →
releaseDate	1940-02-09 →
releaseYear	1940 →
runtimeMinutes	102 →
screenwriter	George Oppenheimer → Leon Gordon →
setIn	Broadway theatre world → New York City →
soundFilm	true →
starring	Eleanor Powell → Florence Rice → Frank Morgan → Fred Astaire → George Murphy → Ian Hunter →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Fred Astaire → Frederick Austerlitz →	notableWork