Broadways Like That
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Genre Short, Music Duration Director Arthur Hurley Music director Harold Levey | 6/10 IMDb Writer Stanley Rauh Initial release March 1930 (USA) Running time 10 minutes Screenplay Stanley Rauh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cast Ruth Etting (Ruth), Humphrey Bogart (Ruth's Fiance), Joan Blondell (Ruth's Pal), Mary Philips (Ruth's Fiance's Wife)Similar movies Humphrey Bogart appears in Broadways Like That and A Devil with Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Broadway's Like That (1929) is a 10-minute Vitaphone short film starring Ruth Etting, with Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart and Mary Philips. Bogart and Philips were married at the time of this film.
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Plot summary
A girl who works in a music store is to be married that evening, but her fiancé tells her their marriage must be postponed. As she is dressing for a New Year's Eve party she is interrupted by a visitor — the wife of the man she had planned to marry.
Production
Broadway's Like That (Vitaphone 960) was filmed in New York and released in December 1929. Ruth Etting stars with Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart and Mary Phillips. Etting's songs include "From the Bottom of My Heart" and "Right Kind of Man", by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Abel Baer.
Film preservation
The soundtrack for this film, recorded on Vitaphone discs, is lost, only a sound print of the film survives, was re-discovored by television syndication in 1963.
References
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