| Two Tickets to Broadway | |
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 Original film poster | |
| Directed by | James V. Kern |
| Written by | Sammy Cahn |
| Produced by | Norman Krasna Jerry Wald Howard Hughes (uncredited) |
| Starring | Tony Martin Janet Leigh Gloria DeHaven Ann Miller Eddie Bracken |
| Cinematography | Edward Cronjager Harry J. Wild |
| Edited by | Harry Marker |
| Music by | Walter Scharf |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2 million (US rentals)[2] |
Two Tickets to Broadway is a 1951 Americanmusical film directed byJames V. Kern and starringTony Martin,Janet Leigh,Gloria DeHaven andAnn Miller. It was filmed on theRKO Forty Acresbacklot.[3] It was nominated for anAcademy Award forBest Sound Recording (John O. Aalberg).[4] The film waschoreographed byBusby Berkeley. The film recorded an estimated loss of $1,150,000.[5]
Frustrated singers Hannah Holbrook, Joyce Campbell, and S. F. "Foxy" Rogers return dejectedly to New York on a bus, their out-of-town engagement in Vermont, arranged by small-time promoter Lew Conway, having been a huge flop.
Nancy Peterson, another passenger on the bus, mistakenly believes Dan Carter has stolen her suitcase. It turns out both are entertainers. They end up with each other's bags, then become better acquainted after the mix-up.
The conniving Lew represents Dan and tries to get him to take the same bad gig the girl singers just left. Lew also meets a couple of delicatessen owners, Leo and Harry, who might have money to invest in his performers' careers. The agent has an impersonator, Glendon, pretend to be the producer of bandleader Bob Crosby's television program.
Everybody excitedly believes that Lew has booked them on the TV show. Lew continually tries to get in to see Crosby's actual producer, totally in vain. He lies to the singers that Crosby won't book them because he is jealous of Dan's ability as a singer. A furious Nancy barges into the TV studio to berate Crosby and his producer, who have no idea what she is talking about.
Nancy boards a bus, headed back home. Crosby's producer, however, says he's been interested in Dan for quite a while, and ends up with an opening on tonight's show after Lew locks the scheduled performers in a closet. Nancy refuses to believe Lew that the gang really is performing on tonight's show, until she spots Dan singing on a TV in a store's window. She races back to New York just in time to join the others on the show.
The roles of the twodelicatessen owners were originally offered toStan Laurel andOliver Hardy, who had to turn down the parts due to Laurel being ill.[6] The comedy team ofSmith and Dale got the roles instead.