Broadway

May 27, 1929

1h 45m

★ 5.6

Carl Laemmle's stupendous talking and singing picture.

Overview

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Genres

Music

Crime

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Broadway Trailers

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Cast

Roy Lane

Glenn Tryon

Pearl

Evelyn Brent

Billie Moore

Merna Kennedy

Dan McCorn

Thomas E. Jackson

'Porky' Thomson

Otis Harlan

Steve Crandall

Robert Ellis

Lil Rice

Marion Lord

Mose Levett

Fritz Feld

Joe

George Davis

Nick Verdis

Paul Porcasi

'Scar' Edwards

Leslie Fenton

Dolph

Arthur Housman

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