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| Broadway Rhythm | |
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| Directed by | Roy Del Ruth |
| Written by | Dorothy Kingsley Harry Clork |
| Story by | Jack McGowan |
| Based on | Very Warm for May 1939 musical byJerome Kern Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd. |
| Produced by | Jack Cummings |
| Starring | George Murphy Ginny Simms |
| Cinematography | Leonard Smith,A.S.C. |
| Edited by | Albert Akst |
| Music by | Johnny Green |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Broadway Rhythm (1944) is aMetro-Goldwyn-MayerTechnicolor musical film, produced byJack Cummings and directed byRoy Del Ruth. It was originally announced asBroadway Melody of 1944 to follow MGM'sBroadway Melody films of 1929, 1936, 1938, and 1940. It was originally slated to starEleanor Powell andGene Kelly, butLouis B. Mayer and MGM loaned Kelly out to Columbia to play oppositeRita Hayworth inCover Girl (1944). The film instead starredGeorge Murphy, who had appeared inBroadway Melody of 1938 andBroadway Melody of 1940. Mayer then replaced Powell withGinny Simms. Other cast members includedCharles Winninger,Gloria DeHaven,Lena Horne,Nancy Walker,Eddie "Rochester" Anderson,the Ross Sisters, andBen Blue, as well asTommy Dorsey and his orchestra.
Murphy plays a successful Broadway musical comedy producer named Johnnie Demming. He needs a star for his new show. He's smitten with the glamorous film star, Helen Hoyt (Simms), and offers the part to her, but she turns him down because she wants to be sure she's in a hit. Johnnie's father (Winninger), retired from vaudeville, wants to do his own show. He gets his daughter, Patsy (DeHaven) and also Helen. Johnnie feels betrayed by his father.
The film is very loosely based on the Broadway musicalVery Warm for May (1939). However, all the songs from the musical except for "All the Things You Are" were left out of the film. Some of the songs from the movie are by the writers of the original musical,Jerome Kern andOscar Hammerstein II:
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