Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Broadway melody of 1940 [videorecording] / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture produced by Loew's Incorporated ; directed by Norman Taurog ; produced by Jack Cummings ; screenplay by Leon Gordon and George Oppenheimer.

Publisher, Date:

[Burbank, CA] : Warner Home Video, [2003], c1940.

Description:

1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake in identity and all is resolved.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Series:

Classic musicals collection.

Subjects:

Musical films.

Feature films.

Dance -- Drama.

Other Author:

Cummings, Jack, 1900-1989.

Gordon, Leon, 1884-1960.

Oppenheimer, George. 1900-1977

Taurog, Norman, 1899-1981.

Porter, Cole, 1891-1964.

Astaire, Fred.

Powell, Eleanor, 1912-1982.

Murphy, George, 1902-1992.

Morgan, Frank, 1890-1949.

Hunter, Ian, 1900-1975.

Rice, Florence, 1911-1974.

Carver, Lynne, 1909-1955.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picuture in 1940.

Special features: All-new digital transfer; Ann Miller hosts Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine; Our Gang short The Big Premiere; theatrical trailer; behind-the-scenes notes.

Lyrics and music, Cole Porter.

Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian Hunter, Florence Rice, Lynne Carver.

DVD.

English or French soundtrack; subtitles in English, French & Spanish.

ISBN:

0790774798

Publisher Number:

65708

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

139702

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Broadway

Medium:

[videorecording]