Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
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Director Rick McKay Language English | 8.4/10 IMDb Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 2003 (2003-04) (Palm Beach International Film Festival)
June 11, 2004 (2004-06-11) (United States) Tagline One filmmaker's search for a Broadway that was lost, and the 100 legends that he found. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Broadway: The Golden Age is a 2003 documentary film by Rick McKay, telling the story of the "golden age" of Broadway by the oral history of the legendary actors of the 1940s and 1950s, incorporating rare lost footage of actual performances and never-before-seen personal home movies and photos.
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Subjects
The film includes interviews (filmed over a span of six years) with the following people:
The intrinsic value of the documentary as a historical record is underscored by the fact that seven of the interviewees (Hume Cronyn, Ute Hagen, Al Hirschfeld, Kim Hunter, Ann Miller, Harold Nicholas and Gwen Verdon) died before the film was released in June 2004, and another 40 interviewees have died since then (as of August 2017).
Reception
Broadway: The Golden Age won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, the Audience Choice Award for Best documentary at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and the Audience Award and Festival Award at the San Diego Film Festival, both for Best Documentary.
In 2006, McKay was honored with a Special Award for his work on the film by the New England Theatre Conference with the New England Theatre Conference Special Contribution to Theatre Award.
References
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