Walking Down Broadway

Mar 11, 1938

1h 15m

★ 5.7

SIX GIRLS...whose lives were as exciting...as teeming with heart-catching drama...as Broadway itself!

Overview

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Joan Bradley

Claire Trevor

Vicki Stone

Phyllis Brooks

Linda Martin

Leah Ray

Tiny Bronson

Dixie Dunbar

Sandra De Voe

Lynn Bari

Jerry Lane

Jayne Regan

Peter Claybourne

Michael Whalen

Tom Douglas

Thomas Beck

Ace Wagner

Douglas Fowley

Jeff Hoffman

Walter Woolf King

F.R. Randall

Jed Prouty

Bob Randall

Robert Kellard

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5.6

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5.8

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8.1

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6.2

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6.4

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0.0

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6.1

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6.4

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7.5

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8.0

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6.9

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5.3

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7.8

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6.0

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6.6

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0.0

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