The Barkleys of Broadway

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American film film musical film

The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 MGM musical film that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their only Technicolor feature together, blending song, dance, and comedy in a backstage showbiz story.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film → film → musical film →
artDirectionBy	Cedric Gibbons → Urie McCleary →
basedOn	original story by Sidney Sheldon →
cinematographyBy	Harry Stradling Sr. →
colorProcess	Technicolor →
costumeDesignBy	Irene Sharaff → Valles →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Charles Walters →
distributedBy	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer →
editedBy	Albert Akst →
features	comedy → dance → song →
featuresCharacter	Dinah Barkley → Josh Barkley →
featuresSong	A Weekend in the Country → Bouncin’ the Blues → My One and Only Highland Fling → Shoes with Wings On → They Can’t Take That Away from Me → You’d Be Hard to Replace →
genre	comedy → musical →
language	English →
leadActorsReunited	Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers →
lyricsBy	Ira Gershwin →
musicBy	Harry Warren →
notableFact	only Technicolor feature film to co-star Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers →
partOf	Arthur Freed Unit MGM musicals →
producer	Arthur Freed →
productionCompany	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer →
releaseDate	1949-05-04 →
releaseYear	1949 →
runtimeMinutes	109 →
screenwriter	Adolph Green → Betty Comden → Sidney Sheldon →
setIn	New York City →
setting	backstage show business →
starring	Billie Burke → Fred Astaire → Gale Robbins → Ginger Rogers → Jacques François → Oscar Levant →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Betty Comden → Charles Walters → Fred Astaire → Ginger Rogers →	notableWork